MAHAVIR PRASAD JAIN Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD on stay application. This matter has come up for confirmation of stay. However reply has been filed on behalf of respondent No. 4, therefore, the writ petition was heard and finally decided with consent of both the parties.

(2.) IT is submitted by Shri Rafiq, learned counsel that, petitioner is an unemployed graduate and is having a fair-price shop in Ward No. 4. Originally a notice was issued to bifurcate 8 wards, subsequently this bifurcation was made only in 3 wards including that of the petitioner. IT is submitted that in all three wards, the fair-price shops have been given to near relatives of the employees of D. S. O. Office. IT is submitted that non-petitioner No. 4 is father of Ashok Kumar, who has been allotted a fair-price shop in the ward of the petitioner after its bifurcation. IT is submitted by learned counsel that the shops have been allotted to the allottees by showing extra-ordinary favour to relatives of the employees in the D. S. O, Office.