MODI, J.—This writ application by Anandmal and another under Art. 226 of the Constitution is directed against a notification No. 9/2/56-Lab. dated the 10th July, 1957, issued by the Government of Rajasthan under sec, 3 read with sec. 5 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, (Act No. XI of 1948) (hereinafter called the Act) by which certain minimum piece rates of wages with respect to employment in Gota Kinari establishment as specified in Schedules A to F appended to this notification were enforced in the Ajmer area, that is, the area which comprised the State of Ajmer immediately before the 1st November, 1956, and it is prayed that this notification be quashed as being illegal and discriminatory.

2. The petitioners are the proprietors of a Gota factory in Moti Katra, Ajmer. It is common ground between the parties that by a notification No, 9/2/56- Lab, dated the 11th. July, 1956 (Ex. I) published in the Gazette of India, Sec. III, dated the 21st July T956, the Chief Commissioner Ajmer acting under sec. 27 of the Act directed that at item No 16 of part I of the Schedule to the Act, "Employment in Gota Kinari Establishment" be added, with the result that the schedule in its application to t

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