before it to an arbitrator as contemplated under Clause
40 of the Dealership Agreement between the parties.
The facts necessary for disposal of this appeal ... said appointment as a
dealer of the respondent is governed by a Dealership
Agreement dated 26.3.1997 executed by the parties. According
to the appellant, Clause
branches for distribution
of all sorts of pumpsets etc. RAIDCO has dealership of
almost all important pumpsets manufactures in the country
and RAIDCO was sole ... Constitution to carry on the business or
sale of pumpsets and dealership in the pumpsets without
being subjected to any unreasonable restriction in such
trading
application was made by
Shri Rajasekhar in July, 1993,....
A Retail Outlet Dealership for MS-
HSD at Secunderabad was sanctioned
to Shri Rajasekhar on compassionate ... application of
Shri Sarbjot Singh for allotment of
a Retail Outlet dealership for MS-
HSD. The applicant has stated that
he is a graduate without
ordinary course of business, by way of— (a) security deposit, (b) dealership deposit, (c) earnest money, or (d) advance against orders for goods, properties
allotments made with respect to retail outlets,
LPG distributorships and SKO-LDO dealerships on the recommendations
of the Dealer Selection Boards (DSBs) since 1st January ... arbitrariness.
Always, many have been in race for getting these
dealerships/distributorships. From September 1977, a uniform procedure
for selection of persons for appointment
published in the year 002 for the
purpose of grant of LPG dealership in Ballabhgarh district. The
advertisement dated 23.3.2002, published in `Navbharat Times ... eligible to
apply.
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9. The candidate selected for dealership shall
be a full time working dealer.
Further details of the eligibility criteria
serial No.2 of the select list/merit panel for award of dealership of
retail outlet under the respondent ... Bharat Petroleum
Corporation Ltd., be offered the said dealership after completing the
process contemplated under the selection procedure in force in the
Corporation
This Special Leave Petition involves the
question as to whether the dealership of the
Respondent No.1 had been validly terminated in
accordance with Clause ... Dealership
Agreement executed between the parties on 30th
August, 2003. In addition, it would also have to
be considered as to whether the termination
concerned
minister from out of his so- called discretionary quota on
petroleum dealership as well as LPG dealership is under
challenge. Prior ... discretion had been allotting retail outlets for
petroleum products, LPG dealership and SKO dealership,
without having any prescribed norms. A Public Interest
Litigation had been
appointed a dealer of the said retail outlet and a dealership agreement
dated 15th November 2006 was executed by and between the
Appellant ... Respondent.
8. The dealership agreement, inter alia, provided:-
“AND WHEREAS the Corporation carries on the business Recitals
of refining and sale of petroleum products