P.K. Balasubramanyan, J.

The petitioner, who claims to be a social worker and a Municipal Councillor of the Corporation of Trivandrum, has approached this Court with the Original Petition praying for the issue of a writ of certiorari to quash an order issued by the Government of Kerala dated 5.6.2000 allotting an area of 2500 sq.ft. in favour of M/s. Malayalam Communications Ltd. to set up a studio in the first floor of Travancore House Palace in New Delhi on rental basis at the rate of Rs. 75.00 per sq.ft. According to the petitioner, this order was not backed by a Government decision to lease out any portion of the Travancore House Palace in New Delhi to any private individual or a company not owned or controlled by the State and that the grant to respondent No.2, the Malayalam Communications Ltd., was done without following any procedure and arbitrarily and it was really a distribution of largesse by the Government and that the grant was based on political consideratioIl' It is further contended that the rent fixed was low compared to the rent payable by the other lessees who were Corporations controlled by the Government and by the State Bank of Travancore in the sam