Advocates:
['PS BHATI', 'DHIRENDRA SINGHDHIRENDRA SINGH RS SHEKHAWAT', 'NUPUR BHATI', 'DHIRENDRA SINGH']

D.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 1678/2006

Amba Lal Nayak v. Union of India & ors.

Date of order : 19.07.2006

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI S.N.JHA

HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ

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Shri P.S.Bhati, for the petitioner

In this writ petition filed as a public interest litigation the

petitioner has questioned the sale of the Laxmi Vilas Palace Hotel at

Udaipur in favour of M/s Bharat Hotels Ltd., and sought direction to

order CBI inquiry into the matter, and a further direction to restore

the original status of the hotel prior to its sale, and for appropriate

punitive steps against the responsible persons for effecting the sale.

At the outset it may be stated that the hotel was sold under

disinvestment policy of the Government of India in 2002 and none

other than the petitioner along with one R.K.Rajdan had filed similar

writ petition being D.B.Civil Writ Petition no. 910/2002 challenging

the sale which was dismissed on 4.4.1992. The Court observed as

under :

“As the subject matter of petition is transfer of

property only and it does not survive after the

modus operandi of disinvestment has been

shown, this writ petition is dismissed without

making any comments on