(1.) There are two sets of Writ Petitions in this batch of cases-one by the manufacturers of sugar popularly known as Sugar Mills and their association and the other-sugarcane growers and their associations.
(2.) W.P.No.7872 of 2015, is taken as the lead case filed by the South Indian Sugar Mills Association, a registered body. The sugarcane growers, individually and through their association, have filed separate Writ Petitions, which is the second batch of cases and their association called as 'Tamil Nadu Karumbu Vivasayigal Sangam' has been impleaded as the third respondent in W.P.No.7872 of 2015. Thus, the private parties are fully represented in the lead case, wherein the Union of India and the Director of Sugar are also respondents.
(3.) The said Writ Petition has been filed for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus to quash the communication issued by the first respondent, the Union of India represented by its Deputy Secretary to Government, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, New Delhi, dated 09.03.2015 and the consequential communication issued by the second respondent, the Director of Sugar, dated 11.03.2015 and 13.03.2015, as being illegal, arbitrary and without jurisdiction and to forbear the official respondents from determining the value of sugar in rupees during the sugar years 2004-05 to 2008-09, in terms of the omitted second schedule of the Sugarcane (Control) Order, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as 'Control Order') and consequently declaring any price for sugarcane payable by sugar producers in the State of Tamil Nadu, over and above the price fixed under Clause 3 of the Control Order for the sugar seasons 2004-05 to 2008-09.