Judgement

JUDGMENT :- These appeals by special leave are filed against the judgment and order date September 1, 1978 and September 4, 1978 passed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench in Misc. Petition No. 140, 139, 43 and 44 of 1977.

2. These appeals arise from the Sugarcane Control Order, 1966 (for short, the "Order" and the M. P. Sugarcane (Regulation of Supply and Purchase) Act, 1959 (for short, the "Act"). It is rather unfortunate that the sugarcane growers who spent their sweat and blood in raising the sugarcane in the years 1974-75, 1975-76 had to wait for 20 years to receive the price of the sugarcane supplied by them to the respondents factories. The respondent in C.A. 1813/80 is a Hindu Undivided Family represented by its Karta and respondents in other appeals are factories. The Central Government had fixed the price of the sugarcane under Rule 3(1) of the Rules issued under Section 3 (3) (c) of the Essential Commodities Act, 1957 at Rs. 8.60 per quintal. Various meetings of the sugarcane growers and the sugarcane factories and their associations, were convened by the Government of Madhya Pradesh and ultimately the agreement got crystallised at the meeting held on