Multiple LPG distributors in Uttar Pradesh filed writ petitions before the Allahabad High Court challenging two policies notified by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) on 21.02.2025: the Policy on Customer Transfer-Market Restructuring and the Policy on Customer Transfer-Based on Area of Operation. The petitioners argued that these new policies retained the same defect of unilateral and forced transfer of customers to new distributors that had been struck down by the Bombay High Court in its judgment dated 30.09.2019 (in Writ Petition No.8753 of 2018 challenging the earlier 2018 Policy), without rectifying those defects. The OMCs countered that the distributorship agreements, LPG Manual, and Letters of Intent all contractually bound the distributors to accept customer transfers at the OMCs' discretion, and that the new policies were issued in line with the Unified Guidelines approved by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The judgment as provided is reserved and delivered but the full operative findings and final order are not included in the text supplied.