SUNITA AGARWAL, PRANAV TRIVEDI
Jetpur Group Vividh Karyakari Seva Sahkari Mandli Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
Satpal Dharamdas Patel – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(PER : HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MRS. JUSTICE SUNITA AGARWAL)
1. The instant appeal arising out of Special Civil Application No. 11194 of 2022 is directed against the common judgement and order dated 10.07.2023 which was passed by the writ Court in the above petition with Special Civil Application No. 11197 of 2022.
2. We may note, at the outset, that the judgement and order dated 10.07.2023 in Special Civil Application No. 11197 of 2022 was subjected to challenge by the respondent in Letters Patent Appeal No. 1134 of 2023, which has been dismissed vide judgement and order dated 21.12.2023.
3. On the presentation of the instant appeal, the first issue raised by the learned counsel for the respondent is about the entertainability of the instant appeal, in view of the aforesaid decision in the Letters Patent Appeal No. no.1134 of 2023 which arose out of the connected matter, namely Special Civil Application No. 11197 of 2022. The learned counsel for the respondents herein, i.e., the original petitioners, would submit that this Letters Patent Appeal is also to meet the same fate.
4. Mr. Baiju Joshi, learned counsel for the appellant has taken us through the record of the writ
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