JUDGMENT

G.P. Mathur, J. - Leave granted.

2. This appeal, by special leave, has been filed challenging the judgments and orders dated 4.8.2004 of a learned single Judge of Rajasthan High Court by which the writ petition filed by respondent No. 1 M/s. G.S. Investments was disposed of with certain directions and also the order dated 23.9.2004 passed by the Division Bench by which the special appeal preferred by the appellants against the said order was dismissed at the admission stage. The appellants have also challenged the order dated 4.4.2005 which was passed in the contempt petition initiated by the respondent No. 1.

3. The appellant No. 1 Rajasthan Housing Board published an auction notice on 3.2.2002 for auction of 50 commercial plots in the Mansarovar Scheme, which was followed by another auction notice dated 19.2.2002. The auction was conducted on 20.2.2002 in which M/s. G.S. Investments (respondent No. 1) made the highest bid @ Rs.5750/- per square meter. A news item was published in some newspaper that large scale bungling had been done in the auction due to which the price fetched for the plots in question was much below the market rate. The State Government issued a direct