Rajasthan High Court - Jodhpur
Saloni Jain vs The State Of Rajasthan ... on 13 August, 2025
Author: Rekha Borana
Bench: Rekha Borana
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT
JODHPUR
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 15181/2025
1. Saloni Jain W/o Pratik Jain, Aged About 30 Years, R/o 30,
New Market, Rawatbhata, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan.
2. Bhanu Priya Kanthaliya D/o Om Prakash Kanthaliya, Aged
About 37 Years, R/o Kanthaliya Bhawan Jhala Manna,
Chourana, Bari Sadri, District Chittorgarh, Rajasthan.
3. Sampat Raj Nagar S/o Ram Nath Nagar, Aged About 44
Years, R/o 76-A, Jai Shree Vihar, Thekda, Industrial
Estate, Kota, Rajasthan.
4. Priyamvada Mishra W/o Vivek Kumar Mishra, Aged About
36 Years, R/o 30, Nemdar, Mau, Uttar Pradesh.
5. Vishnu Prasad Dangi S/o Rameshwar Dangi, Aged About
31 Years, R/o Dangi Mohalla, Tehsil Pirawa, Azampur, Post
Kutki, District Jhalawar, Rajasthan.
6. Yogesh Mehra S/o Babulal Mehra, Aged About 38 Years,
R/o 6-A, Tilak Colony, Kherli Phatak, Kota, Rajasthan.
7. Ravikant Meena S/o Ramkaran, Aged About 28 Years, R/o
77, Meena Ke Mandir Ke Pass, Tehsil Pipalda, Keshopura,
Kota, Rajasthan.
8. Kuldeep Singh Rathaur S/o Raghuveer Singh Rathaur,
Aged About 30 Years, R/o 121, Rada Uper Thakran Ki
Dhani, Sanwatsar, Jhiri, District Alwar, Rajasthan.
----Petitioners
Versus
1. The State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary, Higher
Education, Secretariat, Government Of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
2. The Commissioner, College Education, Block 4, Shiksha
Sankul, Jln Marg, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
3. The Principal, Maharana Pratap Govt. P.g. College,
Chittorgarh.
4. The Principal, Govt. College, Rawatbhata, Chittorgarh.
5. The Principal, Govt. P.g. College, Pratapgarh.
6. The Principal, Govt. College, Dhariyabad, Pratapgarh.
7. The Principal, Govt. College, Kanota, Jaipur.
8. The Principal, Govt. College, Bassi, District Jaipur.
----Respondents
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For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Hans Raj Nimbar
For Respondent(s) : Mr. Devesh Mehra for
Mr. Praveen Khandelwal, AAG
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE REKHA BORANA
Order
13/08/2025
1. The present petition has been filed laying a challenge to
advertisement dated 01.07.2025 (Annex.2) and further the
subsequent advertisements 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
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
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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 advertisement dated 01.07.2025 (Annex.2).
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
77-manila/-
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