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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR (1) S. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 9719/2025 CNR: RJHC020542772025 | URN: CW / 21979U / 2025

1. M/s. Arfat Petrochemicals Private Limited, Having Its Registered Office At B-59, Zainab Park Society, Gorat Road, Rander, Surat, Gujarat and Branch Office At Heavy Industrial Area, D.C.M. Road, District Kota (Rajasthan)

Through Its Authorized Officer Being S.H.A. Rizvi.

2. Shri S.H.A. Rizvi S/o S.A.H. Rizvi, Aged About 70 Years, R/o Bunglow No. 24, Arfat Nagar Coloy, D.C.M. Road, District Kota, Rajasthan.

----Petitioners Versus

1. State of Rajasthan, through The Principal Secretary, Department of Industries, Government Secretariat, Jaipur.

2. State of Rajasthan, through The Principal Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

3. State of Rajasthan, through Cabinet Secretary Department of Revenue, Secretariat, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

4. The District Collector, Kota.

5. Kota Development Authority, through Commissioner, CAD Circle, Rawatbhata Rd, CAD Colony, Dadabari, Kota, Rajasthan 324009.

----Respondents Connected With (2) S. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 6738/2025 CNR: RJHC020364022025 | URN: CW / 15689U / 2025

1. M/s. Arfat Petrochemicals Private Limited, Having Its Registered Office At B-59, Zainab Park Society, Gorat Road, Rander, Surat, Gujarat and Branch Office At Heavy Industrial Area, D.C.M. Road, District Kota (Rajasthan)

through Its Authorized Officer Being S.H.A. Rizvi.

2. Shri S.H.A. Rizvi S/o S.A.H. Rizvi, Aged About 70 Years, R/o Bunglow No. 24, Arfat Nagar Coloy, D.C.M. Road, District Kota, Rajasthan.

----Petitioners Versus

1. State of Rajasthan, through The Principal Secretary, Department of Industries, Government Secretariat, Jaipur.

2. State of Rajasthan, through The Principal Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

3. State of Rajasthan, through Principal Secretary, Department of Revenue, Government Secretariat, Jaipur. 4. The District Collector, Nayapura, Civil Lines, Kota.

5. Department of Tourism, through Commissioner, State of Rajasthan, Police Station, Department of Tourism, Government of Rajasthan Paryatan Bhawan, Mirza Ismail RD, Opposite Vidhayak Puri, Jaipur Rajasthan-302001.

----Respondents For Petitioners : Mr. Kamlakar Sharma, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Gunjan Pathak Advocate, Mr. Aditya Bohra Advocate, Mr. Kanishk Singhal Advocate, Ms .Priyanshi Roongta Advocate, Mr. Yogesh Kala Advocate, Mr. Harshit Bansal Advocate.

For Respondents : Mr. Rajendra Prasad Advocate General assisted by Mr. Sheetanshu Sharma Advocate and Ms. Dhriti Laddha Advocate.

Mr. Yogesh Kumar Sharma Advocate.

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANAND SHARMA

Judgment

REPORTABLE Date of conclusion of arguments :: 10.08.2026 Date on which judgment was reserved :: 10.08.2026 Whether the full judgment or only the operative part is pronounced :: Full Judgment Date of pronouncement :: 28.09.2026

1. By way of filing Writ Petition No. 9719/2025, the petitioners have challenged seven orders dated 24.06.2025, including seven show cause notices dated 16.06.2025, whereby seven different lease deeds earlier granted in favour of the petitioner No. 1 have been cancelled. Petitioners have further prayed for issuance of a direction against the respondent-State restraining it from creating any third-party rights over the land in question, and for declaring ejection of the petitioners from the land in question as arbitrary and illegal. So far as Writ Petition No. 6738/2025 is concerned, the petitioners have challenged order dated 07.03.2025 passed by the District Collector and District Magistrate, Kota (hereinafter to be referred as ‘the District Collector’), whereby application under Rule 8 of the Rajasthan Industrial Areas Allotment Rules, 1959 (hereinafter to be referred to as ‘the Rules of 1959’), filed by the petitioners for permitting change of land use of the land in question for the purpose of establishing tourism unit has been rejected.

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