JUDGMENT

Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J. - These two writ petitions raise common question of law and are also in relation to same facts, hence are being decided jointly.

2. The petitioner Mahesh Chand Sharma, who was working as an Inspector in the Rajasthan Police, after having already served for 18 years in Indian Air Force, was asked to get his DNA Test conducted and was subsequently subjected to initiation of departmental enquiry vide memorandum dated 16/12/2000 during pendency of the writ petition alleging of having illicit relations with one Dharma Rani (petitioner in the connected writ petition) who is a Constable working in the Rajasthan Police; and also of having begotten a child from their illicit relations on 24/05/1997.

3. The petitioner Dharma Rani in the connected writ petition has been charge-sheeted vide memorandum dated 16/12/2000 of living with Mahesh Chand Sharma as husband and wife in House No.151, Jeen Mata Ka Khurra, Galta Road, Jaipur. She has been further charged of having stated during preliminary enquiry conducted on 16/08/1997 of having got married to one Mahesh Chand Sharma son of Bhagwati Prasad Sharma on 10/07/1989 at Udaipur and the marriage having taken place