JUDGMENT

Hon’ble A.K. Sikri, J.—Judgment and order dated August 02, 2010 passed by the High Court of Chhattisgarh in Writ Appeal No. 42 of 2008, which was filed by Century Textiles and Industries Limited, is the subject-matter of challenge in Civil Appeal Nos. 10951 and 10953 of 2016. These appeals are by both the parties. The aforesaid writ appeal was filed by Century Textiles and Industries Limited against the judgment dated March 11, 2008 passed by the learned Single Judge of the said High Court in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1909 of 2007 filed by it in which the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited was the main contesting respondent. Since both the parties have challenged the impugned order, for the sake of clarity, we would refer Century Textiles and Industries Limited as the ‘writ petitioner’ and the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited as the ‘Power Grid’.

2. The writ petitioner is engaged in the manufacture of cement. It is having its cement manufacturing unit at Baikunth. Limestone is one of the minerals which is required for manufacturing cement and to felicitate the supply thereof, the State of Chhattisgarh (hereinafter referred to as the ‘State Government’) had grante