JUDGMENT :

DIPANKAR DATTA, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The appellant is one of multiple respondents in W.P. (C) No. 36 of 2017, W.P. (C) No. 38 of 2017 and W.P. (C) No. 59 of 2017, pending on the file of the High Court of Sikkim (hereafter ‘the High Court’ for short). Separate applications in the said three writ petitions were filed by the appellant seeking its deletion from the array of respondents. The appellant had pleaded in the said applications that, inter-alia, a notification issued by it was under challenge in the writ petitions and that if, at all, such notification could be made a subject matter of challenge, the High Court of Bombay at Goa is the appropriate court where remedy ought to be pursued. According to the appellant, a notification issued under a statute enacted by a State legislature cannot be subjected to judicial scrutiny within the jurisdiction of a high court of a different State, more so when no cause of action has arisen within the jurisdiction of that high court. It was further pleaded that since no part of the cause of action for invocation of the writ jurisdiction had arisen within the territorial limits of the High Court, the writ petitions ought not to proce