Location: ORISSA HIGH COURT, CUTTACK Date: 23-Apr-2026 12:43:01 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK W.P.(C) No.29224 of 2025 (In the matter of an application under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, 1950).

Debasis Dash …. Petitioner(s)

-versus-

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., …. Opposite Party (s)

Mumbai and Ors.

Advocates appeared in the case through Hybrid Mode:

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Nishikant Mishra, Adv. For Opposite Party (s) : Mr. Satya Sindhu Kashyap, Adv.

Mr. P.K. Mishra, Adv.

CORAM:

DR. JUSTICE SANJEEB K PANIGRAHI DATE OF HEARING:-13.03.2026 DATE OF JUDGMENT:-31.03.2026 Dr. Sanjeeb K Panigrahi, J.

1. In this Writ Petition, the petitioner seeks a direction from this Court to quash the rejection order dated 20.02.2025 and to require the opposite parties to consider and accept the alternative land offered pursuant to the Supreme Court’s order for grant of LPG distributorship.

I. FACTUAL MATRIX OF THE CASE

2. The brief facts of the caseare asfollows:

Location: ORISSA HIGH COURT,

CUTTACK Date: 23-Apr-2026 12:43:01 (i) The petitioner applied for LPG distributorship (Gramin Vitarak) at Rench Sasan, District Puri, pursuant to advertisement dated 16.11.2016 and was initially fo