WRIT - C No. 33 of 2020 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW A.F.R. WRIT - C No. - 33 of 2020 Anurag Agarwal .....Petitioner(s) Versus Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. And Ors. .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Subhash Vidyarthi, Anshuman Singh, Ashok Kumar Singh, Geetika Yadav, Prabhat Counsel for Respondent(s) : Manish Jauhari Court No. - 4 HON'BLE IRSHAD ALI, J. 1. Heard Ms. Geetika Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioner in presence of Mr. Prashant Chandra, learned Senior Advocate and Mr. Manish Johari, learned counsel for the respondent-Corporation. 2. By means of the present writ petition, the petitioner is challenging the order dated 30.1.2018, passed by respondent No.2 (Annexure-1 to the writ petition), terminating the petitioner's retail outlet dealership agreement dated 6.12.1996 and order dated 23.5.2019, passed by the Dispute Resolution Panel of Oil Industry (respondent No.3), dismissing the Appeal No.DRP/ IOC/ RET/0014/2018 filed by the petitioner against the termination order dated 30.1.2018. 3. Factual matrix of the case is that the respondent No.1 entered into a petrol/ HSD pump dealer agreement (Annexure-3 to the writ petition), appointing the petitioner has its dealer