JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus to call for the entire records connected with the impugned Circular Order passed by the 1st respondent dated 03.02.2020 and quash the same and allow the petitioners to sell hills vegetables at the Uzhavar Santhai, R.S.Puram, Coimbatore.)

1. This writ petition has been filed challenging the impugned circular dated 03.02.2020 passed by the 1st respondent restraining the petitioner's from supplying fruits and vegetables from Ooty to the Farmers Market at R.S.Puram in Coimbatore, on the ground that they do not have proper identity cards and they have violated the terms and conditions of the Government Order dated 12.11.1999.

2. The petitioner has challenged the impugned order on the following grounds.

(a) All the petitioners are having proper identity cards to supply the fruits/vegetables at R.S.Puram Market.

(b) They have been supplying fruits and vegetables in R.S.Puram Market for several years.

(c) Only on account of the non-payment of bribe to one Kannan, who was earlier, the Administrative Officer/Agricultural Officer at R.S.Puram Market, the impugn