B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner herein is the Agricultural Market Committee, Anantapur. It is aggrieved by the notice issued by the respondent-Municipality in Roc. No. 5922/97-A1 dated 6-2-1998 proposing to conduct open auction in respect of collection of fees in the daily vegetable market and shandy day and Friday in old town and daily vegetable market located in old bus-stand and right to collect fee on slaughter houses, apart from right to collect fee from the eighteen stalls situated in Mutton Market.

( 2 ) IT is stated in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition that the Anantapur Agricultural Market Committee, Anantapur was constituted in the year 1968 under G. O. Ms. No. 2095 Food and Agriculture Department dated29-10-1968. The total extent of the market area is stated to be Ac. 20-30 cents. It is asserted that the petitioner Market Committee is empowered to regulate the Fruit and Vegetable Market within the notified area of Anantapur Market Committee, Anantapur, wherein all the facilities are provided in the market yard. The Committee is entitled to collect the market fee which is intended to be spent towards the services to be rendered and for the fac

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