CWP-12092-2020 (O&M)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

CWP-12092-2020 (O&M)

Date of decision:01.09.2020

M/s Chardikala Indane and others

.......Petitioners

Versus

Union of India and others

......Respondents

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KSHETARPAL

Present:-

Mr.Puneet Gupta, Advocate for the petitioners

ANIL KSHETARPAL, J.

The writ petitioners, who claim to be the new LPG

Distributors, have filed this writ petition under Article 226/227 of the

Constitution of India for issuance of mandamus directing the

respondents to transfer the customers\LPG consumers to them from the

existing distributors till they reach the refill sale viability level i.e. 50%

of the ceiling in terms of the unified guidelines for the selection of LPG

Distributorship – 2016 and as per the circular dated 04.01.2018

(Annexure P2).

In brief, the case of the writ petitioners is that they have

been appointed as new LPG Distributors by the Indian Oil Corporation

and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. They pray that under the

circular (Annexure P-2) while marketing restructuring, the existing

customers of the old LPG Distributors have to