BHUJARAT YADAV Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAJES Kumar, J. By means of the present writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioners are challenging the impugned notices issued by the respondent No. 5 whereby the licence fee of vending/catering sale at different stations in the North Eastern Railway has been enhanced from 5 to 45 times.

(2.) THE claim of the petitioners are that they are holding the vending licence for the sale of eatables at the Railway Station. THEir licences have been renewed from time to time. It is also claimed that during the subsistence of such licence, the respondent has increased the licence fee from the date of the notice for the subsequent period arbitrary ranging from 5 time to 45 times. According to the petitioners such increase is wholly arbitrary and unreasonable and fixed without hearing the petitioners without making any proper exercise.

(3.) COUNTER and rejoinder affidavits have been exchanged. With the consent of learned Counsel for both the parties, present writ petitions are being disposed of.