Jawahar Lal Gupta J. - The petitioner complains that the action of the respondents in allotting "the Distributorship of Indane Gas" to Respondent No. 4 is illegal and arbitrary. He prays that the allotment be quashed and that the agency be allotted to him. A few fact may be noticed.

2. On July 10, 1981, the Indian Oil Corporation invited applications for allotment of distributorship of Indane Gas at Batala. The petitioner was one of the applicants. He was interviewed. He was placed at No. 2 in the merit list. The distributorship was allotted to Mrs. Priya Sekhri who had been placed at No. 1 in the merit list. Aggrieved by this action, the petitioner filed civil Writ Petition No. 3363 of 1982 in the High Court of Delhi. Vide Order dated December 21, 1982, their Lordships were pleased to dismiss the writ petition. The petitioner then filed Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 7639 to 1983 in Honble the Supreme Court of India. Their Lordships were pleased to dismissed this petition vide order dated September 30, 1983 with the following observations;

" The Special Leave Petition is dismissed. The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. will consider the case of the petitioner sympathetically