The following are the facts relevant for the purpose of this order.
The relevant portion of the order reads as follows As the writ application has been admitted and as affidavits have been called for and as the companystitutionality of the said Ordinance is under challenge, any auction companyducted by the respondents, in respect of the Ardhagram companyl block, as incorporated under serial No.19 of the allotment list in Annexure II of the memorandum dated 18th December, 2014, shall abide by the result of the writ application.
The legality of the various allotments of the companyl blocks became the subject matter of public interest litigation before this Court.
As a companysequence, an Ordinance came to be promulgated by the President of India known as the Coal Mines Special Provisions Second Ordinance, 2014 No.
7 of 2014 .
Pursuant to the said allotment, the third respondent herein executed a mining lease in respect of the said companyl block in favour of the first respondent.
Chelameswar, J. Leave granted.
Aggrieved by an interim order passed by the High Court of Calcutta in AST No.432 of 2014 dated 23.12.2014, the respondents 1 and 2 therein preferred the instant appeal.
The first respondent, a companypany registered under the Companies Act, 1956 along with one M s. Jai Balaji Sponge Ltd., secured the allotment of a companyl block known as Ardhagram Coal Block under the memorandum of the appellant dated 6th December, 2007, which was subsequently renewed on 24.2.2014.
