JUDGMENT

SINGH, J.—These appeals are directed against the judgment and order of a Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. D/- 11-2-1987, (reported in AIR 1988 AP 317). affirming the judgment of a learned single Judge of that Court allowing the respondents writ petitions made under Article 226 of the Constitution and quashing the State Governments Order, dated 21-6-1985.

2. The respondents are oil millers and traders who carry on business in the sale and purchase of groundnut seed and groundnut seed oil which is edible. The millers purchase groundnuts and manufacture oil in their mills thereafter they sell the same in the State and outside the State. Similarly the traders purchase the groundnut seed and groundnut oil and sell the same in the State and outside the State of Andhra Pradesh. The State Government issued a circular Order dated 21-6-1985 containing directions regulating the transport and export of groundnut seeds and oil outside the State. The oil millers and traders were permitted to export oil and groundnut seeds only on the condition contained in the Order according to which all millers and traders were required to deliver oil to the State Government at a fix