CW 3718/07 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.3718/07 Praveen Pareek & Ors. Versus The Registrar General & Anr. DATE OF ORDER : 17/04/2009 HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY RASTOGI None present for petitioners Dr. Y.C. Sharma, for University of Rajasthan *** Petitioners who are substantive employees in ministerial cadre and presently working in the office of respondent-District & Sessions Judge, Jaipur City, Jaipur. They joined LL.B. Course which is a full time course under law. However, while they were on duty, they joined LL.B. Course. It appears that Public Interest Litigation was filed in case of Padam Pandit Vs. Rajasthan University, D.B. Civil Special Appeal [Writ] No.559/07, which was decided on 29th May, 2007 where it was observed that LL.B. Course is not casual and part-time. It is a serious course that requires full time. If government employee is serious in pursuing the law course and if service rules permit, may apply for study leave and do the course but the same is not permitted while they are on duty at work place and this CW 3718/07 [2] court took very serious note of the matter while employees who while on their duty at their work place, were shown as regular student of LL.B. Course and such practice followed in the government department was deprecated – as a consequence whereof, PIL [DB Civil Writ Petition No.8421/06] filed by one Poonam Chand Bhandari taking note of earlier judgment dt.29/5/07 in PIL [Padam Pandit Vs. Rajasthan University, Jaipur & another-DB Civil Special Appeal [Writ] No.559/07] was also disposed of. It appears that taking note of judgment of Division Bench, order was passed by Registrar, High Court withdrawing permission granted to undergo LL.B. Course while they were on duty by common order dt.6th April, 2007 and as a consequence whereof, the concerned District Judge also withdrew permission granted to the respective employees to undergo LL.B. Course. Once the order has been passed which is impugned in the instant petition based on judgment of Division Bench of this court, no relief can be granted to the petitioners in the instant petition. However, they only prayed for seeking permission to appear in LL.B. Course, CW 3718/07 [3] 2007. Since there was no permission granted to them at the relevant time, even otherwise also, petition has become infructuous. Consequently, writ petition fails and is hereby dismissed. However, it will not affect their degree which has been obtained by the petitioners prior to passing of order impugned in the instant petition. [AJAY RASTOGI], J. FRBOHRA3718CW07 17-4-LLB.doc