GOKAL CHAND Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SINCE all these writ petitions involve common questions of law and facts, therefore, they are disposed of by this common order.

(2.) THE principal question, which involves in all these writ petitions, is as to whether the principal of quid pro quo is applicable under the Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (referred to hereinafter as the 'act of 1961') and in the matter of the Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets Rules, 1963 (referred to hereinafter as the Rules of 1963' ).

(3.) THERE is another batch of writ petitions which relate to retailers who carry on their business of agricultural produce. For the convenient disposal of this category of cases, the facts given in S. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 4434/1989 : Babu Lal vs. State of Rajasthan & Anr. are taken into consideration :