JUDGMENT :

(Pushpendra Singh Bhati, J.)

The lawyers are abstaining from the work due to strike.

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

"It is, therefore, most humbly and respectfully prayed that this writ petition may kindly be allowed and by an appropriate writ order or direction:

(i) the impugned notification dated 16.10.2019 (Ann.7) passed by respondent no.2 and the list of the applicants dated 06.08.2019 (Ann.6) may kindly be declared highly illegal, arbitrary, unjust and malafide one and same may kindly be quashed and set aside.

(ii) the respondent authorities may kindly be restrained from handing over the charge of the post of Chairman, Child Welfare Committee, Jodhpur to the respondent no.5.

(iii) The respondent authorities may kindly be directed to constitute the Child Welfare Committee, Johdpur in accordance with the list 30.07.2019 (Ann.5) by conducting fresh interview.

(iv) Any other appropriate writ, order or direction which this Hon'ble Court deems just and proper may kindly be passed in favour of the petitioners."

3. As the pleaded facts and the record would reveal, vide advertisement dated 24.01.2019 issued by the respondent No.2, applications were invited, from social workers, for nomination as Chairman & four Members (out of which one must have been a female candidate and one candidate must have been a subject specialist, related to children), for the purpose of Constitution of the Child Welfare Committee, in District Jodhpur as well as in various other districts of the State; the last date for submission of the application form, as per the advertisement, was 11.02.2019. However, vide amended advertisement dated 01.03.2019, issued for the same purpose, the last date was extended from 11.02.2019, till 28.02.2019.

3.1 For the purpose of such nominations i.e. Chairman and Members of the Child Welfare Committee, the State Government, vide notification dated 11.06.2019, constituted the State Level Selection Committee, which proceeded with the selection process by holding the interviews for the nominations, as per the schedule, and finalized the nomination process.

3.2 After conclusion of the selection process, the Child Welfare Committee, Jodhpur and the private respondent No.5 was nominated as Chairman of the said Committee, vide the impugned notification dated 16.10.2019. Aggrieved thereby, the present petition has been preferred, claiming the afore quoted reliefs, while alleging, amongst others, the nomination of the private respondent No.5 to be a backdoor entry, being contrary to the selection process for the nomination in question, as prescribed under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Model Rules, 2016, framed thereunder.

4. Smt. Roopwati Deora, petitioner No.1 present in person submitted that the respondent No.3, vide communication dated 30.07.2019, addressed to the respondent No.4, informed that for Jodhpur District, 95 applications were received for the nominations as Chairman and Members; subsequently, however, a list of 96 candidates came to be published on 06.08.2019; vide notification dated 16.10.2019, the respondent no.5 has been nominated as Chairman, which in the given facts, is highly illegal and unsustainable in the eye of law.

5. The petitioner in person further submitted that it is clear that the respondent no.5 has not submitted the application before the last date of submission of the application, but the respondent authorities illegally and without adopting the due process of select