JUDGMENT - C.S. DHARMADHIKARI, J.:---As all these writ petitions involve common questions of law and fact they were heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. The petitioners are proprietors of video game parlours at Bombay and Sangli. The said parlours have number of mechanical, electro mechanical and electronic games. It is the case of petitioners that video games were introduced for the first time in the year 1980. At that time the said games were a great novelty and attracted considerable public interest, as a consequence of which the taking from operation of the said machines were quite higher. However, thereafter public interest in the said games has declined sharply, with a corresponding marked decline in the profits. It is then contended by them that the actual taking in the case of a particular shop and for a particular machine would vary greatly, depending upon the number of factors such as, the area or locality in which the games parlour is located, whether the machine in question is a new one or an absolute one, whether the machine is in perfect operational order on all working days or not and also whether the supply of electric power is regula

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