JUDGMENT - 1. These five applications in revision under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, are filed by the Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Sholapur, constituted under the Bombay Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1939, and now governed by the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulations) Act, 1963, and will be hereinafter referred to as "the Market Committee". The Market Committee filed five suits, from which the above revisions arise, against five traders of Sholapur in August, 1965, claiming to recover from each of them Rs. 100/- as licence-fees, or in the alternative, as damages with interest at 12 p. c. p. a. as the defendants traded in the yards of the Market Committee without obtaining respectively a licence during the period from September 1, 1963 to August 31, 1964.

2. It was alleged in the plaint, that all the defendants in five suits, who are dealing in the agricultural produce as defined by the Bombay Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1939, within the market area as traders, were purchasing and selling agricultural produce in the market yard, and hence they were bound to obtain a licence after paying licence-fees to the Market Committee, as laid

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