JUDGMENT

SUMMARIUM, J. - Being aggrieved and feeling dissatisfied by the common judgment and order of the learned Single Judge passed in W.P.(C) No. 10334/2017, W.P.(C) No.10746/2017 and W.P.(C) No. 11246/2017 dated 18.03.2020, Appellants have preferred the present Letters Patent Appeals. Appellants, herein, were Respondents No.2 to 4 respectively, in the writ Petitions. For the sake of convenience, parties are being referred to hereinafter, by their litigating status before this Court. The prime ground for challenge in the present Appeals, inter alia, is that by the impugned judgement, the affect of Amendment, notified in the year 2017, amending the Marketing Discipline Guidelines, 2012 (hereinafter referred to as "MDGs" for the sake of brevity), has been invalidated and nullified.

II. FACTUAL MATRIX

2. Appellants herein, being Oil Marketing Companies (hereinafter referred to as "OMCs"), in the year 1981-82, for the first time, formulated and issued the MDGs, for maintaining market discipline and uniformity in action for operating the network of Petrol and Diesel Retail Outlets