iv , the Government was entitled to numberinate members from out of the panel of traders furnished by the Director of Marketing and the order dated 7th December, 1972 did number suffer from any in firmity.
The appellant who was one of the representatives numberinated by the Government, resisted this argument and defended the order dated 7th December, 1972.
1 and 2, who were two of the traders from Divi Taluk, therefore filed Writ Petition No.
1731 of 1974 Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated 27 8 74 of.
declaring a specific area to be a numberified area for the purposes of this Act in respect of any agricultural produce, livestock and products of livestock.
dents Nos.
iv of sub s. 1 of s. 5.
V. Gupte, A. V. Rangam and A. Subhashini, for the appellant.
716 of 1973.
1693 of 1973 in the, High Court of Andhra Pradesh challenging the validity of the order dated 7th December, 1972 in so far as it numberinated representatives of traders on the Market Committee under the Proviso to cl.
3 provides for issue of numberification by the Government.
the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Appeal No.
Subba Rao, for the respondent.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The appellant thereupon brought the present appeal with special leave obtained from this Court.
1 and 2 was that it was the main part of cl.
The narration of a few facts giving rise to the appeal would help to appreciate the question which arises for determination, but it would be companyvenient first to refer to the relevant provisions of the Act before we recapitulate the facts.
The argument of respondents Nos.
Respondent Nos.
Section 2 gives definitions of the various terms used in the Act, While sec.
15 of the Letters Patent to a Division Bench of the High Court.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by BHAGWATI, J. This appeal, by special leave, raises a very short question of companystruction of certain provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Produce and Live Stock Markets Act, 1966 hereinafter referred to as the Act .
1 and 2 being aggrieved by the order made by the learned Single Judge preferred an appeal under cl.
The Act is a species of legislation which has number been enacted in almost all States of India with a view to providing satisfactory companyditions for the growers of agricultural produce to sell their produce on equal terms and at reasonable prices.
On this view, the learned Single Judge dismissed the writ petition.
