Supreme Court of India

The Panipat Co-operative Sugar Mills v. The Union of India

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Reported as [1973] 2 S.C.R. 860
Bench J.M. Shelat, A. N. Grover, K. K. Mathew, A. K. Mukherjea and Y. V. Chandrachud JJ.
Decided 6 November 1972

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that no case for quashing the impugned order has been made out, nor has the price fixed by Government been shown to be inconsistent whh the sub-section. · In the result the appeals fail and are dismissed.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Essential Commodities Act (10 of 1955); s.3 (3C)cls. (a) to (d)-­ Scope of. From 1958 and even earlier,. ex-factory prices of sugar were worked out or. the basis of cost-schedules prepared by expert bodies appointed for !hot purpose. The prices in the cost schedules were prepared in respect of the entire production of sugar and not in relation only to that part of it which was required to be sold to government (referred to as levy sugar), although, partial control in one form or another was in vogue. Such cost-schedules were prepared on the basis of average duration and recovery i the minimum

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