(1.) By this writ-application, the writ-applicants have prayed for the following reliefs:-
(2.) The case of the writ-applicants, in their own words as pleaded in the writ-application, is as under:-
(3.) Thus, it appears from the case put up by the writapplicants that the Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Patan, indulged in large scale fraud and illegalities in allotting the parcels of land of the ownership of the Market Yard to the private respondents herein, first on the basis of permanent lease, and thereafter, by executing sale-deeds in their favour without following any procedure of public auction, fixation of price, etc. It also appears that the land in question is a margin land meant for the purpose of parking. Despite the same, the APMC, in a very high-handed manner, resolved to execute lease, and later, sale-deeds in favour of the private respondents of the margin land situated within the market area as well as other parcels of land situated at the de-notified sub-market yard.