BADAR DURREZ AHMED, J.

( 1 ) THIS writ petition has been filed by the petitioners, inter alia, praying for a writ of certiorari for quashing the impugned notice dated 30. 4. 2001 issued by the Respondent No. 1 (Assistant Collector, Grade-I, Room No. 5, Office of the Deputy Commissioner (South), Abdul Hamid Marg (M. B. Road), Saket, New Delhi ). The petitioners have also, inter alia, sought the issuance of an appropriate writ against the respondents preventing them from taking any coercive action against the petitioners on the basis of the aforesaid recovery notice dated 30. 4. 2001.

( 2 ) THE petitioner No. 1 took a loan from Respondent No. 3 (M/s Pradeshiya Industrial and Investment Corporation of U. P. Ltd.) - (hereinafter referred to as PICUP ). The petitioners 2 and 3 are the guarantors to the said loan taken by the petitioner No. 1 from PICUP. The petitioner No. 1 s registered office is at Delhi and the petitioners 2 and 3 also reside in Delhi. PICUP, however, does not have any office in Delhi.

( 3 ) THE learned counsel on behalf of PICUP submitted that this Court does not have the territorial jurisdiction to entertain this petition and, as such, this question be disposed of a

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