INDIAN AUTO SERVICE Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioners as well as Sri Narendra Prasad Shukla, learned counsel appearing for respondent no. 1 and Sri Vikas Budhwar, learned counsel appearing for the contesting respondents no. 2 & 3 and have perused the record.

(2.) THE petitioner is a retail outlet dealer of Indian Oil Corporation. He is primarily aggrieved by the action of respondent-Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, by which they have issued advertisement dated 6.8.2010 calling for applications for dealership in the vicinity of the outlet of the petitioner. Relying on the guidelines issued by the Indian Road Congress in the year 2009, it is submitted that a fresh dealership should not be given near the location of an existing dealer. THE guidelines have been filed as Annexure 5 to the writ petition.

(3.) THIS writ petition is thus dismissed. No order as to costs.