S.J. VAZIFDAR, J.

1. Respondent No.2 is the Chief Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board. Respondent No.3 is the Market Committee through its Secretary and Executive Officer who passed the impugned orders.

2. The six petitioners have challenged the notices dated 07.03.2015 (Annexures P-13 to P-18) issued to each of them by the Secretary-cum-Executive Officer, Market Committee, Barwala. Each of the impugned orders states that the petitioners concerned had taken licences under Section 10(1) of the Haryana Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') of the first category. As per the orders of the Head Office of the Marketing Board, a person holding a first category licence cannot be issued a second category licence in the same name and that after 31.03.2013 the second category licence would not be renewed.

3. The question that falls for consideration is, therefore, whether the respondents are entitled to reject an application for more than one licence under the provisions of the said Act.

4. The circumstances leading to