IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE SANDEEP N. BHATT

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ON THE 9 OF JANUARY, 2026 WRIT PETITION No. 21834 of 2012 RAJENDRA KUMAR BAJPAI Versus INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Manoj Sanghi - Advocate for the petitioner.

Shri Aditya Adhikari - Senior Advocate assisted by Ms Divya Pal -

Advocate for the respondents.

ORDER The petitioner has filed this petition by praying the following reliefs:

" 7.1 To call for the entire record for kind perusal of this Hon'ble Court.

7.2. This Hon’ble Court may kindly be pleased to direct the respondents to allot retail outlet/dealership of Petrol Pump in favour of the petitioner in District Rewa, in pursuance to advertisement dated 16.9.2011.

7.3. To issue any other suitable directions/orders along with cost of the petition."

2. The facts of the present case, in a nutshell, are that the respondents published an advertisement in newspaper - Dainik Bhaskar on 21.9.2011 and invited application for allotment of retail out-let (Petrol pump) Dealerships in Rewa District. The respondents also published prescribed format of application as well as affidavit in the said advertisement. As the petitioner fulfilled the requirements, he applied for the same in the prescribed proforma and also given requisite information through affidavit as prescribed by the respondents. Copies of the applications are filed herewith as Annexure-P-1 and Annexure-P-2. It is clear from perusal of Annexure-P-2, that the petitioner has given specific information in respect to that no dealership/LPG Distributorship of any oil Company is in the name of himself, his wife or his son has ever been allotted. Thus, in fact the same has been given as per the prescribed proforma of affidavit as attached with the application form and fulfilled the required information as desired by the respondents. Thereafter the respondents being satisfied with the same, started verification of land/site as per the information given by the petitioner and a letter was issued to this effect to the Collector District, Rewa and thereafter the petitioner supplied requisite documents to the District Collector Rewa, and the verification of the land was taken place by Tahildar Huzur, District Rewa. A copy of the letter issued by the Deputy Collector to the petitioner dated 15.11.2011 and the reply to this application dated 30.12.2011 and copy of letter dated 10.1.2012 are filed herewith as Annexure-P-3, Annexure-P-4 and Annexure-P-5 respectively. Thereafter the petitioner has been served with the impugned letter/order dated 18.1.2012 by which he has been informed that his application has been rejected with the reason that in the affidavit submitted by the candidate as per format, the Clause No. 2 is altered. A copy of the order 18.1.2012 is filed herewith as Annexure-P-6.

3. The petitioner immediately filed an application taking an objection that he has given information as per the requirement through affidavit and he has not suppressed any material information, therefore, the affidavit as given by the petitioner be treated as correct as he never altered the Clause No.2. Thereafter, the petitioner has been informed by the respondent no.2 that looking to his objection dated 31.1.2012, the same has been sent to the respondent No.1 and appropriate action would be initiated and information would be given to him. A copy of the letter dated 13.3.2012 is filed herewith as Annexure-P-8. The petitioner waited for sufficient time but he has not been informed up-till now and recently, he came to know that the respondents are going to finalize the allotment of retail outlet in favour of some body else for the same area for which the petitioner has applied, by this way the genuine claim of the petitioner has been ignored on technical grounds. Therefore, the petitioner has approached this Court.

4. Shri Manoj Sanghi, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has applied for dealership for Indian Oil C