JUDGMENT :

All the present Special Civil Applications are taken up for hearing together since they all involve common question with respect to deletion of the name of the petitioner societies in the final voters’ list of the Agriculture Produce Market Committee, [“APMC” for short], Zalod.

2. Rule returnable forthwith. Ms. Nidhi Vyas, learned AGP waives service of notice of rule for the respondent State authorities and Mr. Dipen Desai, learned advocate waives service of notice of rule for the private respondents. With consent of learned advocates appearing for the parties, the matters are taken up for hearing and decision today.

3. The brief facts leading to the filing of this writ petitions are as follows:-

3.1 The petitioner societies are the Marketing Cooperative Societies which are duly registered with the competent authority and they hold licence of marketing since long. The licence of the petitioner societies has been renewed from time to time. It is alleged that the licence of the petitioner societies has been renewed from 1.4.2022 to 31.3.2023 and the same has been signed by the Secretary of the APMC, however, the Administrator has deliberately not signed the said renewal with t