Faizul Hoque and others For the appellant : Mr. Pushpal Chakraborty, Mr. Arkadipta Sengupta, Mr. Tirthankar Dey, Ms. Ria Naskar For the respondent no.1 : Mr. Debabrata Saha Roy, Ld. Sr. Adv., Mr. Pingal Bhattacharyya For the State : Mr. Jayanta Samanta, Jr. Govt. Adv., Mr. Kushal Biswas Heard on : 12.08.2025 Judgment on : 12.08.2025 Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J.:-

1. The present challenge has been preferred against an order dated February 10, 2025 passed in WPA 25813 of 2023.

2. The moot question involved in the writ petition, in which the impugned order was passed, is a challenge thrown by the writ petitioner/private respondent herein against the allotment of MR Distributorship licence in favour of the present appellant.

3. There is a chequered history to the matter, which is submitted before us by learned counsel for the appellant.

4. However, upon hearing learned counsel for the parties, we find that by the impugned order, the writ petition itself has not been disposed of. The present appellant, who is the private respondent no. 6 in the writ petition, took a four-fold objection as to maintainability of the writ petition, the first of which was that the writ petition was not maintain