JUDGMENT :

HIMA KOHLI, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The appellant-State of Rajasthan¹ [in short ‘State Government’] has assailed the judgment dated 26th February, 2016, passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan Bench at Jaipur whereby the order dated 05th October, 2012, passed by the learned Single Judge dismissing a writ petition preferred by the respondent-Ultratech Cement Ltd.² [in short ‘Company’] (S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 15416 of 2012) was set aside and its appeal allowed with a direction to the appellant-State Government to process the allotment of the land in favour of the respondent-Company for setting up a cement plant in Tehsil Nawalgarh, District Jhunjhunu, in terms of the letter of allotment dated 23rd February, 2012.

3. A brief overview of the facts of the case is necessary.

3.1 With the idea of setting up a Cement plant having the capacity of 3 million tons of cement per annum in four villages situated in Tehsil Nawalgarh, District Jhunjhunu, spreading over 1000 hectares of land, the respondent-Company purchased/acquired 400 hectares of land through direct negotiations and took steps to acquire the remaining part of land through private negot