1. The petitioner was a candidate for seeking appointment for distributorship of LPG Gas under the Indian Oil Corporation Limited for Lalganj in the District of Vaishali. The advertisements were issued pursuant to which interviews were held in December, 2003. Petitioner was empanelled as the first candidate and one Alok Ranjan Singh who is now Respondent No. 5 in the present writ application was empanelled as the second amongst the others. For almost one and half years thereafter when the petitioner did not receive letter of intent for establishing the distributorship, he filed a writ petition being C.W.J.C. No. 7462 of 2005 for issuance of direction to the Indian Oil Corporation to proceed further in the matter. While the said writ petition was pending, the said Alok Ranjan Singh who was the second empanelled candidate filed C.W.J.C. No. 10713 of 2006 challenging the selection of petitioner as the first empanelled candidate.

2. It appears that the two writ petitions were taken up together and ultimately disposed of by order dated 28.1.2007 (Annexure-1 to this writ petition). In the said writ application Indian Oil Corporation which is Respondent No. 1 appeared and filed c