P. R. GOKULAKRISHNAN, C. J.

( 1 ) THIS Letters Patent Appeal is directed against the order of the learned Single Judge (Coram : A. P. Ravani, J.) dt. Nov. 23, 1988 passed in special civil application No. 5662 of 1988. The Special Civil Application is for directing the respondents to pay the amount of reward at the rate of 10% of the recoverable amount from the Company as per Annexure l to the special civil application with interest and declaring the action of the respondents regarding non-payment of reward to the petitioner as arbitrary, capricious, whimsical and illegal. There is a further prayer for declaring the order of respondent No. 2 bearing No. 3599 dt. Nov. 21, 1987, Annexure n to the special civil application, as null and void and declaring the same as unconstitutional, illegal and fabricated on non-existing and irrelevant grounds.

( 2 ) THE Short facts of the case for the purpose of disposal of this Letters patent Appeal are that the appellant seems to have given information to the Municipal Corporation, Baroda, by letter dt. 10-10-85, Annexure e to the special civil application, regarding the octroi evasion. In this letter the appellant has stated that M/s. Gujarat Comm

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