JUDGMENT

Rajendra Babu, J. -Leave granted in SLP (C) Nos. 5883/98, 6016/98 and No. 6012/98.

2. Writ petition was filed in the High Court of Karnataka by Arun Kumar Agrawal and S.K. Kantha seeking for investigation by appropriate agencies into the various allegations made by them and to initiate criminal proceedings against the guilty persons as per law. It was also prayed to set aside the power project entered by Karnataka Electricity Board (KEB) with Mangalore Power Corporation (MPC) and reallot the power project through an open bidding process. The High Court by an order made on February 27, 1998 granted some of the reliefs sought for in the writ petition. Against the order, the petitioners in the writ petition as well as the respondents have come in two sets of appeals. The High Court formulated 13 points (though noted as 14 in the order under appeal) which appeared to it be of suspicious nature leading to issue of the following directions :

"1. That respondent State (R-1) is directed to get a FIR registered withh the CBI under the provisions of Delhi Special Police Establishment Act for various cognizable offences without naming any person or group of persons as