JUDGMENT :

(Vipin Sanghi, J.)

1. Issue notice.

Learned counsel appears and accepts notice on behalf of the respondents.

2. Counsel for the respondents fairly does not oppose the application seeking condonation of delay in filing the present appeal. Accordingly, the delay condonation application (IA No. 01 of 2023) is allowed. The delay is condoned.

3. The present special appeal is directed against the judgment rendered by the learned Single Judge, in Writ Petition (M/S) No. 950 of 2020, dated 07.01.2023. By the impugned judgment, the writ petition preferred by respondent No. 1 has been allowed by the learned Single Judge. The orders impugned in the writ petition dated 23.05.2020 and 12.06.2020, issued by the appellants were quashed, and a direction was issued to the appellants to commission the retail outlet of the respondent/writ petitioner on the plot offered by him for the said purpose.

4. The brief facts have been taken note of in the impugned judgment. We reproduce the same here-in- below:

“The facts of the case are not disputed in this case. They may be narrated in a chronological manner as hereunder:

On 25.11.2018, the respondent No. 1, i.e., Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (h