JUDGMENT

PATHAK, J.:— The petitioners, M/s. Indo-Afghan Chambers of Commerce and its President, Sundar Lal Bhatia, are aggrieved by the grant of additional licences to the respondents, M/s. Rajnikant Brothers and M/s. Everest Gems for the import of dry fruits.

2. The petitioner, M/s. Indo-Afghan Chambers of Commerce, is an association of dealers engaged in the business of selling dry fruit in North India. The dry fruit is purchased by them either locally or through imports from outside India. The respondents, M/s. Rajnikant Brothers and M/s. Everest Gems, are diamond exporters who have been issued additional licences pursuant to an order of the Court in the following circumstances.

3. The respondents diamond exporters had applied for the grant of Export. House Certificates under the Import Policy 1978-79 and had been denied the Certificates on the erroneous ground that they had not diversified their exports. In writ petitions filed in the Bombay High Court. they were held entitled to the Export House Certificates. Special leave petitions filed by the Union of India against the order of the High Court were dismissed by this Court by its order dated April 18. 1985 which, while confirmi