Dharmendra Kumar v. The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.14139 of 2013 ====================================================== Dharmendra Kumar, S/O Late Yadu Singh, Resident Of Village - Makundan Bigha, P.O. - Jaitpur, District - Nalanda ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1. The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited Through Its General Manager, Bharat Bhawan, 4 & 6 Currimbhoy Road, Ballard Estate, Mumbai

2. The Territory Manager (L P G), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Raiganj, District - Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal

3. The Deputy Manager ( LPG - Ops) Patna LPG Territory, Fatuha Industrial Area, Fatuha, Patna

4. The Assistant Manager (LPG - Sales) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Barauni (Bihar) ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Satish Kumar Sinha, Adv.

For the Respondent/s :

Mr.Madhuresh Prasad,Adv.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD ORAL ORDER 08-01-2019 This writ application has been preferred for issuance of a writ of certiorari to quash and cancel the communication as contained in Letter dated 20.02.2013 issued under the signature of Respondent No. 2 by which the candidature of the petitioner for award of LPG distributorship at Kishanganj under GP Category pursuant to advertisement dated 18.05.2012 has been rejected.

No one appears on behalf of the petitioner to press this writ application.

Learned counsel representing the Petroleum Company has submitted that this writ application in its present form

Patna High Court CWJC No.14139 of 2013(3) dt.08-01-2019 2/2 cannot proceed in view of the subsequent developments. It is submitted that during pendency of the writ application the LPG distributorship was allotted in favour of M/s Arhan Bharat Gas and the same has been commissioned on 30.03.2018, therefore, a third party right has already been created and the same is not under challenge.

In the given facts and circumstances of the case where the reliefs prayed in the writ application cannot be granted in view of the subsequent developments and the petitioner has not made any prayer for amendment of the writ application, in the opinion of this Court, the writ application cannot proceed and is dismissed accordingly.

(Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, J) R.R.Ojha/- U