ORIGINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Writ Petition No.
1555 of 1979 etc.
Dr. L.M, Singhvi, B.D. Sharma, Shri Narain, Sandeep Narain, Shrid Rizvi and D.K. Singh for the Respondents.
Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India .
Whether these petitions, which appear to be identical, are reproduc tion of any of those petitions, which were pending in this Court from before is number relevant but various group of petitions of Punjab and Haryana dealers challenging companysti tutionality and legality of Act and its provisions including Gut, Khandsari and Shakkar as agricultural produce in the schedule of Punjab Act have been dismissed by different benches presumably because of decisions in Kewal Krishan Puri v. State of Punjab, 1979 3 SCR 1217 Ramesh Chandra State of U.P., 1980 3 SCR 166 Rathi Khandsari Udyog v. State of U.P., 1982 2 SCR 966 and Sreenivisa General Traders v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1983 SC 1264.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by M. SAHAI, J. Validity of Rajasthan Agricultural Pro duce Markets Act, 1961 for brevity the Act levying market fee on sale and purchase of agricultural produce in market yard or sub marketyard was challenged by dealers for lack of legislative companypetence, violation of Articles 14, 19, 30 1 and 304 of Constitution, absence of any quid pro quo in the fee paid and service rendered, illegal and arbi trary inclusion of manufactured articles such as Khandsari, Shakkar, Gur and Sugar as agricultural produce in the sched ule etc.
Acts of other States, for instance, Punjab and Haryana and U.P. were also assailed for similar infirmities.
N. Dwivedi and Sarwa Mitter for the Petitioners.
