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Virendra Kumar Pandey v. North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited and Ors.
Patna HCCWJC/17889/2018
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Petitioners, appointed as Rural Revenue Franchisees under the Rural Revenue Franchise Scheme, 2013, challenged the cancellation of their agreements by non-speaking one-line orders passed after show cause notices. The court quashed the cancellations for breach of natural justice and quashed the allotment of the same work to a company, made before the cancellations, as arbitrary and mala fide.
What did the court decide?
Impugned orders of cancellation and the allotment of work to respondent no. 7 quashed; respondents at liberty to take a fresh decision and fresh appointment in accordance with the Scheme; admitted pay