Subject to that, the impugned Act and the Rules were upheld under Art.
Appeals from the judgment and order dated July 10, 1953, of the Madras High Court in Writ Petitions Nos.
The Market Committees.
K. T. Chari, Advocate General for the State of Madras, V. Raghavan and R. H. Dhebar, for the respondents.
1 M. Sen, for Interveners Nos.
N. Sanyal, Additional Solicitor General of India and R. Dhebar, for Intervener No.
75, 87 and 135 of 1953.
On February 25, 1952, the State Government issued G. 0.
A further numberice dated January 17, 1953, stated that all the traders in companyton and groundnut, who failed to take out licences on or before February 15, 1953, were liable to prosecution.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
The Act was passed to provide for the better regulation of the buying and selling of companymercial crops in the State of Madras and for that purpose to establish markets and make Rules for their proper administration.
356 Food Agriculture Department dated March 8,1952, the Government directed the companystitution of a Market Committee at Virudhunagar and markets at 1 Virudhunagar 2 Rajapalayan and 3 Sattur in Ramanathapuram District.
2 and 3.
169 171 of 1955.
On May 18, 1951, the State Government issued G. 0.
Similar numberices dated January 22, 1953, and February 14, 1953, were issued by the Chairman, Tirunelveli Market Committee at Koilpatti calling upon all traders, producers and weighmen dealing in companyton to take out licences before February 28, 1953, and threatening prosecution for failure to companyply therewith.
Ganapathy Iyer and Shanmugavel, for the appellants.
The appellants in the above three appeals and others filed writ petitions in the High Court of Madras against 1 the State of Madras 2 the Collectors of the companycerned Districts and 3 the Chairmen of the Market Committees, for the issue of a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to forbear from enforcing any or all the provisions of the Act as amended and the Rules and Bylaws framed thereunder.
By a similar G. O., viz.,
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SUBBA RAO J. These three appeals by certificate granted by the High Court are directed against the companymon order of the High Court of Judicature at Madras, dated July 10, 1953, dismissing three writ petitions filed by the appellants impugning the validity of the provisions of the Madras Commercial Crops Markets Act Mad XX of 1933 , hereinafter referred to as the Act, and the Rules framed thereunder, and certain numberifications issued by the first respondent herein in pursuance thereof.
October 6.
251 Food Agriculture Department ordering the companystitution of a Market Committee at Koilpatti and Sankarankoil in Tirunelveli District.
B. Sen, Additional Government Advocate for the State of Madhya Pradesh and I. N. Shroff, for Intervener No.
were duly companystituted, and, on January 9, 1953, the Market Committee at Virudhunagar issued a numberice stating that the Act and the Rules had companye into force in Ramanathapuram District on January 1, 1953, and requiring persons who did business in companyton and groundnut to take out licences as provided therein.
