Judgment

CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.:- Reluctant traders, un-willing to move their places of business into the markets or market yards as they are differently called in the States of Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka, set up by respective Market Committees under various State Agricultural Produce Marketing Acts, offer their resistance through these Writ Petitions and Civil Appeals. We will first recite the facts in one of the cases (Writ Petition No. 692 of 1980) and thereafter consider the questions raised in that as well as the other cases. The petitioner in Writ Petition No. 692 of 1980 is a trader presently carrying on business in Gur and other commodities at 1221, Bhavani Peth, Pune. In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 4A (2) of the Bombay Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1939, by a notification dated July 6, 1961, the locality known as Bhavanipeth and Nanapeth of the Pune City was declared as one of the principal market yards for the market area consisting of Pune City and Haveli Talukas. The market area had been so declared by a notification dated May 1, 1957, pursuant to a declaration that it was intended to regulate the purchase and sale of gur in the market area. The Bo