( 1 ) IN this group of petitions, the petitioners have challenged the action of Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 in preventing the petitioners from exhibiting advertisements on private properties situated within the Municipal corporation limits of City of Ahmedabad without payment of revised licence fees. In essence what is under challenge is the decision of Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 to increase the rates of collection of licence fees from the owners of private properties. The petitioners have also challenged decision on the part of respondent nos. 2 and 3 to collect huge amount from the agencies who are inter- mediators between the property owners and companies who are desirous of exhibiting their advertisements under the heading of registration charges.

( 2 ) SHORT facts leading to the present petition are as follows:" (1) In city of Ahmedabad on places of strategic importance, advertisements are being exhibited by various companies of their produces or services. Sites at which these advertisements are exhibited can be broadly classified into two categories. First category is the sites situated in properties belonging to Municipal corporation of city of Ahmedabad and in the second category,

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