The Court also came to the further companyclusion that there had been numberverification of the statements made in the applications by the allottees and hardly any application companytains details of annual income or bio data and hardly any person had filed any affidavit in support of his claim, seeking grant of discretionary allotment and in several cases the applications even did number bear any data and a number of allottees belonged to one Parliamentary Constituency and were active members and supporters of the party in power at the relevant time.
50 lacs, filed a review petition against the aforesaid two directions of the Court, which was entertained and that review petition was allowed by a three Judge Bench of this Court, since reported in 1999 6 S.C.C. 667.
The said Committee submitted its report, on the basis of which the Court issued numberices to various persons by its order dated 27th of February, 1997 and 20th of March, 1997 and the Court was to deal with the cases of about 400 allottees.
In those two petitions, allotment of petrol pumps gas agencies to various persons during the period 1992 93, 1993 94, 1994 95 and 1995 96 had been challenged.
The Court, therefore, vacated the stay order granted and directed the Registry of the Court to send all affidavits filed by the parties in the transfer petition along with the annexures to the High Court.
After the disposal of first batch of cases by the High Court by its judgment dated 29.8.1997, the High Court issued numberices to some other allottees and disposed of the second batch of cases by its order dated 11.10.99 and both these orders of Delhi High Court are under challenge, so far as it relates to the cancellation of allotments made under the discretionary quota.
The Court having cancelled the allotments made in favour of the appellants, who are before us, the present appeals have been filed by grant of special leave.
Pursuant to the numberices issued, the allottees filed their respective show causes and then the Court heard the respective companynsel for the allottees as well as examined the report of the Committee and scrutinized the same by perusing the original file and finally disposed of the cases of about 100 allottees by its judgment dated 29th of August, 1997.
4003 and 4430 of 1995 had been filed in Delhi High Court by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, as public interest litigation, which were pending in Delhi High Court.
Captain Satish Sharma, who was the companycerned minister and against whom the Court had directed registration of a criminal case by the C.B.I., and also levied penalty of Rs.
This judgment of the Court is reported in 1996 6 SCC 530.
A Transfer Petition had been filed in this Court, which was registered as Transfer Petition No.
While the Common Cause case was pending in this Court, Civil Writ Petition Nos.
127/96 and this Court had issued numberice in the transfer petition and stayed further proceedings before the High Court.
shall be followed by the Central Government in making all such discretionary allotments of retail outlets for petroleum products, LPG Dealership and SKO Dealership, hereafter.
