MOTILAL B. NAIK, J.

( 1 ) THIS writ petition is filed by an advocate of this Court as party-in-person praying this Court to issue a writ or order or direction particularly one in the nature of a writ of quo-warranto restraining the first respondent from functioning as union Minister for Petroleum, Government of India, in the interests of justice and seeks such other orders as the Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case.

( 2 ) THE three respondents in the writ petition are (1) Mr. Ram Naik, Petroleum minister, Ministry of Petroleum, Union of india, New Delhi, (2) Ministry of Petroleum, union of India, New Delhi, represented by its Secretary; and (3) Hon ble Prime Minister of India, New Delhi.

( 3 ) WHEN this writ petition is presented in the Registry, office had taken several objections as to the maintainability of this writ petition including maintainability against the third respondent-Hon ble Prime minister of India. At the instance of the petitioner/party-in-person, the matter is placed before us on 19-8-2002 under the caption "for orders of the Court" for hearing the party-in-person on the objections raised by the Registry. On 19-8-2002, we granted time t

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