( 1 ) A public spirited social worker acting as anonymous informer to the Dist. Magistrate, Surat was instrumental in unearthing a systematic and well-organised activity of obtaining licence to deal in essential commodities and/or obtaining authorisation to run a fair price shop for supply of essential commodities, and thereafter illegally and unauthorisedly transferring for handsome considerations such licence or authorisation to unauthorised merchants or traders who would in their turn try to earn still higher profits-of course, at the cost and miseries of common menconsumers. The master-mind working behind this dubious devices is that of one Mr. Jayantilal Shah who was successful in obtaining number of licences and/or authorisation in diverse names to receive and sell kerosene at subsidised rates. Having obtained such licences and/or authorisation he had transferred for handsome consideration the rights flowing therefrom to other persons who in their turn are found to be making profit by selling such essential and scarce commodity at very high prices to unauthorised persons (persons other than card-holders ). It is also found that said Jayantilal shah was retaining part