1. All these four writ petitions arises from disputes over reservation of villages made in favour of different sugarcane mills for exclusive purchase of sugarcane grown in those villages. M/s Vishnu Sugar Mills Limited filed C.W.J.C. No. 15586 of 2004, challenging the communication, dated 30.9.2004 enclosing a copy of the order passed by the Cane Commissioner, Bihar on 28.9.2004 by which 23 villages (a list of which is appended to the order) of East Champaran district were reserved for crushing season 2004-05 in favour of respondent no. 4 M/s Sasamusa Sugar Works Limited. According to the petitioner, for the purpose of reservation of villages in terms of Section 31 of the Bihar Sugarcane (Regulation of Supply and Purchase) Act, 1981a meeting was convened by the Cane Commissioner on 24.9.2004 in which the representatives of all sugar mills took part and in which the proposals submitted by the different sugar mills for reservation of villages in their favour were considered. It was alleged by the petitioner that neither in the proposal made by respondent no. 4 nor in course of the meeting held on 24.9.2004, there was any suggestion of the 23 villages in question being reserve