This is an application for obtaining a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or order directing the respondents to show cause why the order dated 18-1-1955 should not be set aside and also for quashing the said order and for costs of and incidental to this application as against the respondents.

2. It appears that in the State of Manipur in Gazette Extraordinary No. 61-E-31 dated 24-11-1951, Notification No. DR/80/FCC/51 dated 20-10-1951 was published containing the Manipur Foodgrains (Movement) Control Order 1951 and in exercise of the powers conferred by S. 3, Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946 the Manipur Government ordered that no person should export or attempt to export any rice, paddy or products thereof from Manipur to any place outside Manipur except under and in accordance with the terms issued by the State Government in this behalf; vide para 3(a) of the Order.

The Central Government by notification No. Py-11-656(36)/54 dated 10th July 1954 in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 3 of the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act 1946 substituted another order for the order which was published earlier vide Notification dated 20-10-1951