JUDGMENT :

Leave granted.

2. The appellant company is registered under the Companies Act, 1956 and is involved in the business of setting up of Natural Gas Distribution Networks within India. The dispute in this petition is with regard to the Gas Distribution Network (for short ‘GDN’) in the cities of Udaipur and Jaipur in the State of Rajasthan. Challenging the order dated 18.05.2011 of the Government of Rajasthan whereby No Objection Certificate (for short ‘NOC’) for laying down of Gas Network pipelines granted in favour of the appellant had been withdrawn (including forfeiture of the commitment fees of Rs. 2 Crore deposited by the appellant), and also the order dated 19.05.2011 of the Board rejecting the application of the appellant for authorisation of its projects in Udaipur and Jaipur, as well as challenging the validity of the Regulation 18 of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (Authorizing Entities to Lay, Build, Operate or Expand City or Local Natural Gas Distribution Networks) Regulations, 2008 (for short ‘Regulations of 2008’), the appellant had filed Writ Petition No. 10028 of 2011 before the Rajasthan High Court, which has been dismissed on 29.04.2015. Aggrie