Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010120862024 2025:GAU-AS:6934 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : I.A.(Civil)/2565/2024 PALLORBUND TEA LTD. A COMPANY INCORPORATED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956 HAVING ITS REGISTERED OFFICE AT 3B, LALBAZAR STREET, KOLKATTA 700001 REPRESENTED BY ITS CONSTITUTED ATTORNEY CHAYAN DEY VERSUS THE COLLECTOR, CACHAR AND ANR SILCHAR, ASSAM 2:OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION A COMPANY INCORPORATED UNDER THE PROVISION OF THE COMPANIES ACT 1986 HAVING ITS OFFICE AT NELSON MANDELA MARG VASANT KUNJ NEW DELHI- 110070 AND ONE OF ITS UNIT AT CACHAR PROJECT P.O. SRIKONA DISTRICT CACHAR ASSAM AND IS REPRESENTED BY MANAGER(HR) OF ONGC SRIKONA SILCHAR DISTRICT CACHAR ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. J KALITA, Advocate for the Respondent : GA, ASSAM, MR. S K CHAKRABORTY (R-2),MR. D MAZUMDAR (R-2) Page No.# 2/3 BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BUDI HABUNG ORDER Date : 29-05-2025 Heard Mr. J. Kalita, learned counsel for the applicant. Also heard Mr. T. R. Gogoi, learned Government Advocate for the respondent no. 1 and Ms. S. Senapati, learned counsel for the respondent no. 2. This is an application filed under Order 1 Rule 10 (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 praying for impleadment of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited as party respondent no. 2 in the connected LA.App./8/2022. It is submitted that the petition was filed challenging the impugned order dated 09.11.2021 passed in MISC Land Acquisition case no. 2/2012. In the said proceeding, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited was a necessary party as the land of the applicant was acquired for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, however, in the said proceeding the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited was not impleaded as a party respondent although the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited being the beneficiary of the land acquired from the applicant is a necessary party. Since in the land acquisition proceeding, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited was not made a party, therefore, in preferring the LA Appeal no. 8/2022, the applicant also did not make the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited as a party respondent. The applicant contends that the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited Page No.# 3/3 is a necessary party for proper adjudication of the connected LA.App./8/2022, therefore, the applicant prays for impleadment of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited as party respondent no. 2 in the said Land appeal. The learned counsel for the respondents has no objection to the said prayer. In view of the above, the prayer is allowed. Accordingly, let the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited be impleaded as the respondent no. 2 in LA. Appl./8/2022. With the above, this IA stands disposed of. JUDGE Comparing Assistant