1. The first and second respondents in O.P.6039/92 together and third respondent separately and an another interested person with leave, have filed these appeals against the judgment in O.P.6039/92. The said Original Petition was filed by twenty persons, who were engaged in fishing using stake nets, when their applications for licences, have been rejected by the second respondent stated to be relying on extraneous reasons and without considering relevant aspects in terms of R.13 of the Rules for the Management and Control of Fisheries in Government Water Rules, 1974 framed under S.18 of the Travancore-Cochin Fisheries Act, 1950. It was urged before the learned Single Judge by the State and other respondents in the O.P. that certain experts committees had been constituted by Government and the said committees had given reports to regulate the grant of licence for china nets and stake nets. Such reports also had to be taken note of. But the learned single judge found that the report of the committee to be considered is of the committee made mention of in R.13. The reports of the committees called Babu Paul's Committee, Prof. N.Balakrishnan Nair's Committee and A.G. Kalawa