This is an application on behalf of Chunilal Rajendra Kumar, a joint Hindu family partnership firm carrying on business at Maxwell Bazar, P.S. Imphal, for obtaining a writ of mandamus or a writ of a like nature or an order directing the respondent 1 to refrain from interfering with the business of the petitioner and for quashing any order that might have been passed against the petitioner disallowing him from exporting 252 maunds of chira purchased at Imphal in February/March, 1955 for the purpose of earning sufficient profits during the course of carrying on its business in various commodities including foodstuffs of rice, paddy, chira etc.

2. The petitioner has been carrying on wholesale business in various commodities including foodstuffs of rice, paddy, chira etc., and according to the petitioner the right of free trade in rice, paddy, chira and other similar commodities and also for export from Manipur to places outside Manipur has been guaranteed by the Central Government Notification No. PY-11-656(36)/54 dated 10-7-1954, which was issued in exercise of the powers conferred under S. 3, Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946, which runs as follows :

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