JUDGMENT:

G. P. MATHUR, J.

Leave granted.

2. This appeal, by special leave, has been filed challenging the judgment and order dated 5.9.2003 of a Division Bench of Allahabad High Court, by which the writ petition filed by the appellants was summarily dismissed at the admission stage.

3. The appellants herein filed the writ petition before the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution praying for the following reliefs :

(i) issue an appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the respondents concerned to allot the shops/godowns to the petitioners on hire purchase basis;

(ii) issue an appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the respondents concerned not to interfere, in any manner, on the possession of the petitioners shops and godowns allotted to them;

(iii) issue an appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the respondents concerned not to compel the petitioners to enter into any agreement for taking shops/godowns allotted to them on rental basis.

(iv) issue any other or further writ, order or direction which this Honble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case.

The writ petition was filed on behalf of 143 firms and individuals carrying on bus