JUDGMENT :

DINESH MEHTA, J.

1. These matters come up for consideration of application under Article 226(3) of the Constitution of India filed by respondent No. 1 for vacating the interim order dated 14.12.2021 passed by this Court.

2. It may be noted that when 4 writ petitions out of the present batch of writ petitions came for motion hearing before this Court on 25.11.2021, the matters were ordered to be listed on 01.12.2021 while reflecting name of Mr. K.S. Rajpurohit, learned Addl. Advocate General for the State of Rajasthan in the cause-list.

3. Meanwhile, various other writ petitions came to be filed and all these petitions were tagged and heard for interim relief on 14.12.2021. Upon considering the petitioners' contention that the respondents have permitted Maharana Pratap University as well as other state run universities to conduct counselling for their vacant seats, without affording such opportunity to the private institutions/colleges including the petitioners, this Court passed an interim order directing the respondent No. 1 and 2 to conduct one additional counselling, permitting all the remaining Institutions including private institutions to participate for their vacant/remaining seats. The order was also passed because the Court felt that keeping 2212 seats vacant out of total 7712 seats would be to nobody's advantage.

4. Mr. Muktesh Maheshwari, learned counsel putting in appearance on behalf of respondent No. 1-Coordinator JET/Pre- PG/Ph.D Entrance Examination-2021, at the outset pointed out that the interim order dated 14.12.2021 was passed only after considering the submissions of the State Government and the answering respondent-Coordinator and the Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner (SKRAU) who were necessary parties, were not heard, due to which all the requisite and correct facts and law could not be brought to the notice of the Court and hence, the interim order came to be passed as the State could not give proper assistance/response. Without raising any grievance against the learned Addl. Advocate General, who appeared for the respondent-State, it was respectfully submitted that as learned AAG did not receive any instructions from the Coordinator/SKRAU, he was not in a position to satisfy the Court about the ground realities.

5. Mr. Maheshwari then submitted that as per the general guidelines issued for Joint Entrance Test (JET) 2021, the candidates were required to fill online application forms after entrance examinations, whereafter the counselling was to take place as per the following Schedule:

6. It was pointed out that as per the guidelines issued by the Coordinator, third round of counselling or spot/final counselling took place between 18.10.2021 to 21.10.2021.

7. While taking the Court through the guidelines aforesaid and relevant para-10 and 11, learned counsel submitted that spot/final counselling was the last option available to the candidates, whereafter the process of admission has closed on 01.11