Supreme Court of India

State of Maharashtra and Others v. Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. Pvt. Ltd.

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Reported as [2019] 12 S.C.R. 924
Bench R. Banuma Thi and A.S. Bop Anna JJ.
Decided 22 August 2019

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the impugned judgment of the High Court is set aside and the appeal is allowed.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Seeds Act, 1966 – Seeds Rules, 1968 – Seeds (Contr ol) Order, 1983 – Maharashtra Cotton Seeds (Regulation of Supply , Distribution, Sale and Fixation of sale price) Act, 2009 – Respondent-Company was pr ocessing cotton and non-cotton seeds of differ ent varieties in its unit – According to r espondent, all such processed seeds wer e stor ed in the storage/godown attached to the processing unit for transpor tation to differ ent places – Case of the appellant was that the r espondent not having a valid licence for storage or sale of seeds in the said pr ocessing unit had committed gross

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