M/S Jayanta Kumar Ghosh Outdoor Catering Private Ltd. and Anr. v. Union of India and 3 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
WP(C)/6204/2021 (linked WP(C)/6940/2021), Gauhati High Court, single judge N. Unni Krishnan Nair, order dated 10.02.2026. Railway catering licensees (M/s Jayanta Kumar Ghosh Outdoor Catering Pvt. Ltd.; Jayanta Kumar Ghosh; M/s Deepak and Co.; Rakesh Kumar Gupta) versus Union of India and N.F. Railway authorities (General Manager, Chief Commercial Manager (PM and Catering), Divisional Railway Manager (Catering) Lumding, Assistant Commercial Manager). Grievance concerned license fee; respondents submitted rebate on license fee granted plus 10-month extension (lapsed); petitioners' counsel stated no further grievance; issues rendered infructuous; writ petitions dismissed as infructuous; dismissal on infructuity, not on merits.
What did the court decide?
In view of the submissions of learned counsel for the parties, the grievance of the petitioners having been redressed by the respondents, the issues arising in the present writ petitions have been rendered infructuous.