{"id":190062,"date":"2008-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/khemji-katara-vs-state-ors-on-21-august-2008"},"modified":"2017-05-15T00:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T19:25:20","slug":"khemji-katara-vs-state-ors-on-21-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/khemji-katara-vs-state-ors-on-21-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"Khemji Katara vs State &amp; Ors on 21 August, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Rajasthan High Court &#8211; Jodhpur<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Khemji Katara vs State &amp; Ors on 21 August, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>                    S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.1596\/2008\n             Khemji Katara     Vs.        State of Rajasthan &amp; Ors.\n\n\n                        Date of Order       ::    21.8.2008\n\n\n                     HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR\n\n           Mr. Bharat Devwasi, for the petitioner.\n           Mr. Deepak Choudhary, for the respondents.\n                                     ...\n\n\n            The order impugned dated 8.1.2008 has already been withdrawn\n\n     by the Government of Rajasthan, as such, this petition for writ has\n\n     become infructuous. It is stated by learned counsel for the respondents\n\n     that the amount already recovered in pursuant to the order impugned\n\n     dated 8.1.2008 shall also be refunded to the petitioner within a period\n\n     of one month.\n\n\n\n\n           The petition for writ, therefore, is dismissed in view of the fact\n\n     that the order impugned has already been withdrawn and statement has\n\n     already been made for making refund of the amount already recovered\n\n     in pursuant to the order impugned.\n\n                                                  (GOVIND MATHUR), J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>Jgoyal&#8217;\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan High Court &#8211; Jodhpur Khemji Katara vs State &amp; Ors on 21 August, 2008 S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.1596\/2008 Khemji Katara Vs. State of Rajasthan &amp; Ors. Date of Order :: 21.8.2008 HON&#8217;BLE MR. JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR Mr. Bharat Devwasi, for the petitioner. Mr. Deepak Choudhary, for the respondents. &#8230; The order impugned dated 8.1.2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-rajasthan-high-court-jodhpur"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Khemji Katara vs State &amp; Ors on 21 August, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/khemji-katara-vs-state-ors-on-21-august-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khemji Katara vs State &amp; 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