P.N.RAVINDRAN, ANIL K.NARENDRAN
KARTHIGESU K. , PROPRIETOR – Appellant
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STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, FOOD CIVIL SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT – Respondent
W.P.(C).No.28902 of 2013 is filed by the Kerala Hotel and Restaurant Association, Pathanamthitta District Committee, along with persons who are engaged in the business of running hotels and restaurants at Pathanamthitta, Adoor and Panthalam in Pathanamthitta District, seeking a writ of certiorari to quash Ext.P20 price list dated 13.11.2013, published by the District Collector, Pathanamthitta, fixing the price of various food stuffs in the hotels and restaurants in that district, during the Sabarimala pilgrimage season (2013-14). They have also sought a declaration that, the steps taken by the District Administration to fix the price of food stuffs in their hotels and restaurants, as evidenced by Ext.P20 price list, and the compulsion to display the said price list by replacing the existing price list exhibited in their hotels and restaurants is illegal, ultra vires, without jurisdiction and is in total disobedience of the dictum laid down by this Court in the decisions reported in Kerala Hotel and Restaurant Association v. State of Kerala (2005 (4) KLT 497) and Kerala Hotel and Restaurant Association v. Thrissur District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (2012 (3) KLT 27
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