HIND TERMINALS PVT LTD THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR vs UNION OF INDIA & ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 31st January, 2025 W.P.(C) 12142/2019 HIND TERMINALS PVT LTD THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Piyush Sharma, Mr. Rahul Khosla, Mr. Pankaj Prakash, Mr. Sarang Rastogi, Ms. Shweta Singh and Mr. Ramit Jain, Advocates. versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR .....Respondents Through: Ms. Arunima Dwivedi, Ms. Kritika Sharma and Ms. Pinky Pawar, Advocates. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE JYOTI SINGH JUDGEMENT JYOTI SINGH, J. (ORAL) 1. This writ petition is preferred on behalf of the Petitioner under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for a direction to Respondent No.2/Northern Railways to refund an amount of Rs.90 Lacs to the Petitioner along with interest @ 12% per annum from 10.04.2015. 2. Case of the Petitioner as averred in the writ petition is that on 31.05.2011, Respondent No.1 issued Freight Marketing Circular No.14 of 2010 introducing policy guidelines on Private Freight Terminal (‘PFT’). On 23.04.2012, Respondent No.2 issued the Revised PFT Scheme in supersession of Circular No.14 of 2010 and Freight Marketing Circular No.05 of 2012 was notified stipulating guidelines for regulating PFT, a 3. It is averred that bein