The Allahabad High Court has held that the 30-day deadline for issuing a show cause notice, as outlined in Clause 8.5.6 of the Marketing Discipline Guidelines, 2012, framed by the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), is mandatory in nature. A bench of Justice Shekhar B. Saraf and Justice Vipin Chandra Dixit observed thus while allowing a writ plea filed by Gyanendra Kumar (dealer)...