JUDGMENT

RIAZAT ALI SAHAR, J.---Through this petition, the petitioner has claimed that he is an experienced and law-abiding bidder and has participated in Customs Department auctions at Hyderabad and Sukkur for the past 22 years, earning his livelihood solely through this lawful activity. On 24.03.2022, the Customs Department released a list of perishable items for auction, including Lot No. 100/21-22 comprising 14,000 liters of foreign-origin cooking oil. The petitioner submitted a bid of Rs. 4,000,000/- (Rupees forty lacs), but during the auction proceedings, he was informed that the lot had been withheld due to stay orders from this Court. Later, the petitioner came to know that the same lot was secretly sold to one Faraz Ali for only Rs. 2,530,000/- (Rupees twenty five lac and thirty thousand only), which was significantly lower than his offer, thereby causing a substantial financial loss to the national exchequer and raising concerns of favoritism and illegal conduct by the respondents. Th...