KAN SINGH, J —The three writ petitions being of identical nature were heard together and can conveniently be disposed of by a common judgment.

2. The petitioners are dealers at Pali carrying on business inter alia in cotton seeds. They pray for a writ in the nature of certiorari, mandamus or prohibition or any other suitable writ for striking down the item "cotton seeds" from the list of commodities applicable to the Krishi Upaj Mandi, Pali and further the respondents be restrained from calling upon the petitioner to take a licence for carrying on trade in this commodity or to recover fees from the petitioners by taking any coercive action against them. It will be convenient to take the facts from writ petition No. 1981 of 1971.

3. The petitioner avers that he deals in cotton seeds and not in any other commodity. He buys cotton seeds in the State of Gujarat and then brings them to Pali in Rajasthan and sales them at Pali where the commodity is used as a cattle feed. The petitioner further avers that he never buys cotton seeds from the agriculturists in the local market at Pali according to him cotton seed is neither grown in Pali area nor do the agriculturists ever bring cotton seeds

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