IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR ORDER IN S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.6618/2002 Om Prakash Srivasatava S/o Shri Shyam Sunder Ji Srivastava Versus State of Rajasthan through Deputy Secretary to the Government, Rajasthan Secretariat, Jaipur Date of Order ::: 15.04.2008 Present Hon'ble Mr. Justice Narendra Kumar Jain Shri Suresh Sahni, and Shri V.B. Srivastava, Counsel for petitioner Shri Om Prakash Srivastava, petitioner, present-in-person Shri M.C. Gupta, Addl. Govt. Counsel for respondents #### By the Court:- The petitioner has preferred this writ petition challenging the impugned order Annexure-7 dated 10th June, 2002 whereby a sanction has been granted for prosecution of the petitioner under Section 197 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. During the pendency of this writ petition, the petitioner has also filed an additional affidavit dated 18th July, 2006 along-with the letters dated 10th April, 2006 and 15th May, 2006. During the course of arguments, the learned counsel for the petitioner prayed that he may be allowed to withdraw the writ petition with a liberty to the petitioner to file a representation before the appropriate authority of the State Government to reconsider Annexure-7 dated 10th June, 2002 in accordance with the law and also after considering the aforesaid two letters, which have been placed on the record along-with the additional affidavit. The learned Additional Government Counsel submits that as per his information the State Government has taken a decision to file a charge-sheet in the case but he has no objection in case the petitioner is allowed to file a representation for reconsideration of his matter in the light of aforesaid letters. The learned counsel for the petitioner contended that the charge-sheet in the present case has not been filed as yet. After considering the submissions of learned counsel for the parties, the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to file a representation for reconsideration of the order dated 10th June, 2002 (Annexure-7). It is directed that in case a representation is filed by the petitioner within a period of 15 days from today then the concerned authority shall consider the same in accordance with the law and will also consider the affect of the aforesaid letters dated 10th April, 2006 and 15th May, 2006. The necessary order on the representation may be passed within a period of three months from the date of filing of the representation. A copy of this order will also be annexed with the representation. (Narendra Kumar Jain) J. //Jaiman//