JUDGMENT :

1. RULE. Mr. Devang Vyas, learned Additional Solicitor General with waives service of notice of rule on behalf of respondent nos.1 to 3. With the consent of the learned advocates appearing for the parties, matter is taken up for final hearing today.

1.1 This petition is filed by the petitioner for the following prayers:

“(i) Holding and declaring that the action of the respondents of initiating proceedings against the petitioner by way of Case No.32 of 2018 before the respondent no.1 and order dated 9.11.2018 passed therein and of carrying out investigation and issuing Investigation Report dated 20.3.2020 therein is ex facie arbitrary, unreasonable, unconstitutional, violative of principles of natural justice without jurisdiction, highhanded, perverse, unjust, harsh, illegal and void.”

2. The brief facts of the petitioner's case are as under:

2.1 The petitioner is carrying on the business of printing and has a web offset printing machine. In April, 2018, the Gujarat State Board of School Text Book (for short 'GSBSTB') issued a tender for job-work of offset printing of tex