Reserved on: 24.02.2026 Pronounced on: 22.02042.26:0A2P6HC:16685 APHC010260072014 Bench Sr.No:-1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH [3552]

AT AMARAVATI WRIT APPEAL NO: 1126 of 2014 The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Hyderabad and ...Appellant(s)

Others Vs.

Durga Pujari Suri Babu, Visakhapatnam Dist. ...Respondent **********

Advocate(s) for Appellant(s): SAI SANJAY SURANENI, T BALA MOHAN REDDY Advocate for Respondent: CHAKRADHARA RAJA Y CORAM :THE CHIEF JUSTICE DHIRAJ SINGH THAKUR SRI JUSTICE CHALLA GUNARANJAN DATE : 22^nd April, 2026 JUDGMENT: (per Hon’ble Sri Justice Challa Gunaranjan)

Present intra-court appeal under Section 15 of Letters Patent assails order dated 14.07.2014 passed by learned Single Judge in W.P. No.20858 of 2009, by which the prayer in the writ petition came to be allowed.

2. Brief facts in filing the appeal are stated as follows:

(a) The respondent writ petitioner came to be appointed as a Distributor for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) at Anakapalle, Visakhapatnam District, by virtue of the Distributor Agreement (herein after, for short ‘DA’), dated 30.01.1985. The selection and appointment of LPG dealership was under the category of social objective category (SOC) mea