Rahul Yadav and Another v. M/s. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. and Others

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2015 Supreme(Online)(SC) 420

SUPREME COURT
S.C. Agrawal, P.K. Bahri, JJ
Rahul Yadav and Another v. M/s. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. and Others

Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Kapil Sibal
For the Respondents: Meenakshi Arora

Table of Content
1. the dealership and lease agreements are separate. (Para 2 , 3 , 6)
2. arguments on the connection between dealership and lease. (Para 7 , 8 , 12)
3. court observations on eviction rights under 1971 act. (Para 9 , 10 , 13 , 16 , 19)
4. court's ratio on cancellation effects. (Para 18 , 21)
5. final direction on possession turnover. (Para 22)

1. Leave granted.

3. The allotment of such petrol pumps by the competent authorities became a front page news item in Indian Express mentioning that there had been grant of retail outlets of petrol pumps to the near and dear ones of the political functionaries on account of political consideration. Number of cases were filed in various courts and all of them were transferred to this Court and a two - Judge Bench in Onkar Lal Bajaj v. Union of India , 2003 (2) SCC 673 , after referring to such earlier event that was the subject matter of Common Cause, a Registered Society v. Union of India, 1996 (6) SCC 530, wherein it had been observed that for these kind of allotments, a transparent and objective criteria / procedure has to be evolved based on reason, fair play and non - arbitrariness, adverted to many a facet, namely, the criteri