24.07.2025 Court No.24 DL/Item No.–2 [Milan]

WPA 15554 of 2025 Ashok Kumar versus Union of India & Anr.

Mr. Rishad Medora, Mr. Dipendra Nath Chunder, Mr. S. Panda, Mr. S. Mookherjee, Ms. Priyanka Mitra ….for the Petitioner Mr. Amit Kumar Nag, Ms. Rishita Saha ….for the BPCL

1. The petitioner is the distributor of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (in short, “LPG”), who is distributing cylinders of respondent, oil marketing companies to the customers. The petitioner challenges the circular dated 21st February, 2025 on marketing restructuring and customer transfer policy issued by three leading Oil Marking Companies, namely, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (in short, “IOCL”), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (in short, “BPCL”) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (in short, “HPCL”).

2. It is the contention of the petitioner that on the earlier occasion, the oil marketing companies have issued circular under the same nomenclature on 4^th January, 2018 and 9^th January, 2018 respectively regarding the policy of customer transfer from one distributor to another distributor. The said policy was under challenge initially before the Hon’ble Division Bench of the Bombay High Court in writ petiti