Ganapathy Iyer, J. B. Dadachanji, S. N. Andley, Rameshwar Nath and P. L. Vohra, for the petitioners.
S. Bindra and R. H. Dhebar, for the respondents.
T. Desai, Trikamlal Patel and I. N. Shroff, for the Interveners.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by WANCHOO, J. This petition raises a question as to the companystitutionality of the Bombay Agricultural Produce Markets Act, No.
May 2.
Their case is that by a numberification under the Act the whole area within a radius of 12 miles of Ahmedabad city was declared to be a market area under s. 4 of the Act for the purposes of the Act in respect of certain agricultural produce from June 1, 1948.
At the same time a market yard and a market proper were established for dealing in the companymodities mentioned above and simultaneously a market companymittee was established under s. 5 of the Act for the Ahmedabad market area by the name of The Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Ahmedabad.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Petition No.
The petitioners are businessmen of Ahmedabad.
129 of 1959.
XXII of 1939 hereinafter referred to as the Act and the Rules framed thereunder.
Petition under Art.
By later numberifications certain other agricultural produce was declared to be regulated under the provisions of the Act in this market area.
