ORDER

In this application for the issue of a writ under Article 32, a notification of the Government of Andhra Pradesh dated November 12, 1984 as amended on April 22, 1986 purporting to have been issued under the powers conferred by the Andhra Pradesh Catering Establishments (Fixation and Display of Prices of Food Supplies) Order, 1978, is questioned on the ground that it is too general, vague, unworkable and oppressive. Even on a cursory perusal of the notification, it is clear to us that it is indeed oppressive and unworkable. The most important direction contained in the notification is direction No. 2 which provides that the catering establishment shall make available idli and sad a dos a, plate meals, coffee, tea etc. at certain fixed hours. Catering Establishment is defined by the principal order as meaning a hotel, restaurant, eating house, cafe, tea shop, coffee house, feeding centre, club, canteen or railway refreshment room and includes any other place of like nature open to the public where food is served, supplied or consumed. It is obvious that the expression catering establishment has been used in a very wide sense as to include every sort of establishment where an art