Judgment

O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, J. :- Special leave granted in S. L. P. No. 8032 of 1983.

2. These appeals must go the same way as Civil Appeal No. 5997 of 1983 - they have to be allowed. Civil Appeal Nos. 6217, 6219, 6221 and 6222 of 1983 relate to the auction of the exclusive privilege of selling foreign liquor in the shops in Allahabad District while Civil Appeal No. 6218 relates to the auction of the exclusive privilege of selling country liquor. Civil Appeal No. 6228 of 1983 relates to the auction of the exclusive privilege of selling country liquor in shops in Bulandshar District. The questions raised in all these appeals are the very questions decided by us in Civil Appeal No. 5997 of 1983. However, Shri S. S. Ray, learned counsel appearing for the respondent. Manminder Singh, in Civil Appeal No. 6217 of 1983 made a valiant effort to persuade us to dismiss the appeal. He submitted to us that we would have taken a different view of the facts in the earlier case, had it been brought to our notice that the Excise Commissioner had himself, on 24-3-1983 declined to order re-auction of the country liquor shops of Chail group, when requested to do so by Ghanshyam Das Jaiswal. The same E