(1.) The present appeal is directed against an order of a learned single Judge dated 15th February, 1985 in CO. No.l8249(W) of 1984 disposing of a writ petition on consent of the writ petitioner, who is respondent No. 1 in the present appeal and one of the respondents who is respondent No.6 before us. This is a typical example of how disposal of an application even on consent without due circumspection and attention, no notice being served on necessary parties, may lead to serious complications and result in irreparable damage being caused to such latter party.
(2.) The relevant facts leading to the impugned order may be succinctly stated as follows :-
(3.) The facts which followed subsequent to the seizure are stranger still. On 1.12.1984 the seized goods forming the subject matter of the disputed consignment had been shifted from the Shalimar Goods Shed to the custody of one N. R. Das at 4, Gobinda Dhar Lane.