ahmedabad the gujarat high court has curtailed the chances of a banker to become a judge the court upheld its rule that besides practising advocates only those who are employed in courts or its allied departments are eligible to become judgesavinash detha applied for the post of a civil judge when the high court issued an advertisement in january his online application was rejected by the hcs recruitment registrar citing rule 12b detha who got his law degree from gnlu in gandhinagar in 2012 and enrolled with rajasthans bar for practice accepted a job last year with the state bank of india as a deputy manager law in the real estate department in indore in madhya pradesh upon the rejection of his application he filed a petition in the high court contending that the bank should be considered as an allied department of the court and his application should be accepted and he should be permitted to participate in the recruitment processdethas advocate argued that his jobchart indicated that he deals with all kinds of legal work including consultation and drafting there is no reason not to include the bank within the ambit of other allied departments any department where legal work is undertaken and where the employees duty is related to the field of law ought to have been treated as an allied department the advocate saidin the hcs defence it was argued that comparing an official of court or legal department of the secretariat with a bank official is like comparing two different classes the category of other allied departments is well defined an employee of court or legal department may be familiar with court work and procedure this may not be true for employees working in legal department of other officesafter hearing the arguments justice n v anjaria dismissed dethas petition and held that a bank cannot fall in the category of courts allied departments