SID MILLS,TAPA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By this order, I am dealing with C. W. P. Nos. 4179, 4178 and 4463 of 2012.

(2.) Facts are being taken from C. W. P. No. 4179 of 2012.

(3.) Although the petitioner has come up with a seemingly innocent prayer seeking directions that the Food Corporation of India (hereinafter referred as F. C. I. ) be directed to lift and accept the paddy milled by the petitioner-firm, but the F. C. I. is resisting it on the ground that the petitioner-mill is supposedly the successor-in-interest of a firm named M/s Baba Vir Giri Rice Mills which stood blacklisted and hence they were not obliged to deal with such a firm. The petitioner as a measure of assertion of its rights, refers to the milling policy which is on record as Annexure P-8 with particular reference to clause 11, the relevant portion of which is extracted here below:-