Rajasthan High Court - Jodhpur
Dr. Roshan Kumar Mehta vs The State Of Rajasthan ... on 12 August, 2025
Author: Rekha Borana
Bench: Rekha Borana
[2025:RJ-JD:35875]
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT
JODHPUR
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 15215/2025
1. Dr. Roshan Kumar Mehta S/o Phool Shankar Mehta, Aged
About 45 Years, Bhiluda, Kumharwada, Sagwara,
Dungarpur, At Present Working At Late Shri Bhikhabhai
Government College, Sagwara, Dungarpur (Assistant
Professor Botany)
2. Rajesh Atal S/o Girdhari Lal Atal, Aged About 29 Years,
Kotari, Khandela, Sikar, At Present Working At Late Shri
Bhikhabhai Government College, Sagwara, Dungarpur
(Assistant Professor Physics)
3. Dr. Shubhag Vyas S/o Akhilesh Vyas, Aged About 30
Years, Jasela, Galiyakot, Dungarpur, At Present Working
At Late Shri Bhikhabhai Government College, Sagwara,
Dungarpur (Assistant Professor Chemistry)
4. Sharda D/o Ramkishan, Aged About 34 Years, Gf/20,
Block-C, Near Ajmer Road, Auric Homes, Jaisinghpura,
Jaipur, At Present Working At Government College,
Mojmabad, Dudu, Jaipur (Assistant Professor Geography)
5. Dr. Ashvin Kumar Panchal S/o Dhul Ji Panchal, Aged
About 40 Years, Hospital Road, Bagidora, Banswara, At
Present Working At Late Hardev Joshi Government Girls
College, Banswara (Assistant Professor Chemistry)
----Petitioners
Versus
1. The State Of Rajasthan, Through Principal Secretary,
Department Of Higher And Technical Education,
Secretariat, Jaipur.
2. The Principal Secretary, Department Of Finance, Govt. Of
Rajasthan, Secretariat, Jaipur.
3. The Commissioner, College Education, Block-4, Shiksha
Sankul, Jln Marg, Jaipur.
4. Nodal Officer Cum Principal, Shri Govind Guru
Government College, Banswara
5. Nodal Officer Cum Principal, Haridev Joshi Girls College,
Banswara
6. Nodal Officer Cum Principal, S.b.p. Government College,
Dungarpur
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7. Nodal Officer Cum Principal, Seth R.l. Sahariya
Government P.g. College, Kaladera
8. Principal, Government College, Mojmabad, Dudu, Jaipur
9. Principal, Late Shri Bhikhabhai Government College,
Sagwara, Dungarpur.
----Respondents
For Petitioner(s) : Dr. Ashok Choudhary
For Respondent(s) : Mr. Devesh Mehra for Mr. Praveen
Khandelwal, AAG
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE REKHA BORANA
Order
12/08/2025
1. The present petition has been filed laying a challenge to
advertisements dated 01.07.2025 and 02.07.2025 (Annex.2) for
the recruitment of Guest Faculties.
2. At the very inception, counsel for the petitioners submits
that the issue rests covered by the judgment passed by a Co-
ordinate Bench of this Court at Jaipur in Ram Chaturvedi & Ors.
Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors.; S.B. Civil Writ Petition
No.1474/2023 (decided on 28.08.2023).
3. The judgment of Ram Chaturvedi (supra) was further
assailed by the respondents before the Division Bench of this
Court at Jaipur by way of a special appeal being D.B. Special
Appeal Writ No.903/2023; State of Rajasthan Vs. Ram
Chaturvedi and other connected matters wherein vide order
dated 17.10.2024, following interim order was passed:
"After hearing learned counsel for the parties, we are inclined
to stay the effect and operation of the direction contained in
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Para11 of the impugned order only to the extent that the
benefit of re-engagement by preferential treatment will not be
available to those who were earlier discontinued as Guest
Faculty and were not working as Guest Faculty when the
occasion arise for re-engagement and that this preferential
treatment would be available only in the matter of engagement
of Guest Faculty in the Institution wherein they have been
engaged and actually working and not in any other Institution.
Rest of directions will remain operative."
4. In view of the above ratio, the present writ petition is
disposed of with a permission to the petitioners to file an
application to participate in the fresh recruitment process sought
to be initiated vide communication dated 29.06.2025 (Annex.21).
5. On the said applications being filed, the respondents shall be
under an obligation to consider the candidature of the petitioners,
keeping into consideration their appointment as Guest Faculties in
the previous session and further, the guidelines as issued in Ram
Chaturvedi (supra).
6. Stay petition and pending applications, if any, stand
disposed of.
(REKHA BORANA),J
12-DhananjayS/-
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