JUDGMENT

CHINNAPPA REDDY, J. :— We grant special leave and proceed to dispose of the appeal.

2. M/S. Oswal Wollen Mills Limited, having its registered office at Ludhiana in the state of Punjab and a branch office at Calcutta, and Narayan Das Jain, Secretary of the Company having filed a writ petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking various reliefs against the Union of India (through the Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi), the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports, New Delhi, the deputy Chief controller of Imports and Exports, Amritsar, the controller of customs, calcutta and the state Trading Corporation of India, New Delhi. The Primary prayer in the writ petitioner is to prevent or to quash an apprehended or purported action under Cl. 8-B of the Import Control Order. All the other reliefs Import Control Order. All the other reliefs sought in the writ petition revolve round the principal relief regarding Cl. 8-B of the Import Control Order. The other prayers are either ancillary or incidental to the principal prayer or are of an interlocutory character Havingregard to the fact that the registered office of the Company is at Ludhiana and the principle respondent against