LAWS(RAJ)-2000-5-53

RAKESH GHATIWAL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

Decided On May 26, 2000
RAKESH GHATIWAL* Appellant
V/S
STATE OF RAJASTHAN Respondents

JUDGEMENT

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(2.) THE instant writ petitioner has been filed challenged the impugned order dated 8.5.2000 (Annx.6), by which the petitioner has been suspended from the Membership of the Municipal Corporation, Jodhpur.

(3.) THERE is a catena of decisions of this Court laying down that an elected representative should not be suspended putting him at par with a Government employee, for the reason that in a democratic set up, the duly elected officer is to be considered entirely on a different pedestal than that of the government employee and gravity of the charges should be of high magnitude warranting suspension of the erring elected officer. (Vide Bajrang Lal vs. State of Rajasthan & ors. (6) and Radhey Shyam Sharma vs. State of Rajasthan & ors. (7).