JUDGMENT :

1. This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been preferred claiming the following reliefs:

“It is, therefore, most respectfully prayed on behalf of the petitioner that the writ petition may kindly be allowed and by an appropriate writ, order or direction:-

I. The order dated 20.12.2021 (Ann.6) may kindly be quashed and set aside.

II. Any order (if passed) engaging another advocate in place of the petitioner may kindly be quashed.

III. Any other appropriate order or direction, which this Hon’ble Court considers just and proper in the facts and circumstances of this case, may kindly be passed in favour of the Petitioner.

IV. Costs of the writ petition may kindly be awarded to the Petitioner.”

2. Brief facts of the case, as placed before this Court by learned counsel for the petitioner, are that the petitioner is a practicing Advocate at Udaipur (Rajasthan). The respondent-Department vide order dated 09.07.2019 has engaged the petitioner as an Additional Public Prosecutor and Government Counsel at Udaipur. The respondent vide letters dated 26.08.2021 and 09.09.2021 issued to the petitioner called for a detailed clarification (alongwith certain document