ORDER :- This is an application for a writ of Mandamus to compel the respondent H.M. Jagtiani as General Manager of the East Indian Railway to issue to the applicants a license or licenses for the period of 1-6-1950 to 31-3-1951 for sale, throughout the railway system, of ice, mineral waters and cordials, and to direct the Divisional Superintendents of the Railway to permit the applicants to use the premises heretofore used by them as depots and stalls for the sale of their products.

2. The applicants are manufacturers and caterers of ice and mineral waters. For 27 years or so they have worked as Railway contractors for catering ice, aerated waters and cordials to bona-fide passengers, Railway servants, Railway Institutes and hospitals and to refreshment room contractors over the entire system of the said Railway. The respondent was lately the Chief Commercial Manager, and is now the General Manager, of the East Indian Railway. The Head Office of the said Railway is at No. 105, Netaji Subhas Road, Calcutta.

3. The applicants claim to relief is founded upon an allegation that the East Indian Railway Administration has wrongfully refused to renew their catering contract for a fresh ter

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