JUDGMENT :

R.K. Deshpande, J.

Rule. Heard the learned counsels appearing for the parties. Both these Public Interest Litigation and Writ Petition are being disposed of finally by this common judgment.

2. In Public Interest Litigation as well as in Writ Petition, an enquiry is sought in respect of manufacturing and marketing of soil testing fertilizer recommendations without having facility of testing of two mandatory parameters of Copper and Nitrogen during the year 2014 to 2-5-2018. The further relief sought is to restrain the marketing of STFR without getting its validation at least in five different agro-climatic zones in the country. The STFR technology is developed by the respondent Nos.2 and 3-ICAR and IARI and commercialized by issuing licences to 14 companies/firms, including the petitioner-Nagarjuna Agro Chemicals in Writ Petition No.5845 of 2018.

3. The Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR) is a leading institution for agricultural research, education and expansion in India with its Headquarter at New Delhi and functions under the control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. The Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) is a pre