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PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH
VIKRAM AGGARWAL
Punjab State Grain Procurement Corporation Limited – Appellant
Versus
Gill Rice Mills – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Vikram Aggarwal, J.
1. By way of the instant judgment, this Court proceeds to decide the afore-titled two regular second appeals and one civil revision petition. The facts, being common, shall essentially be derived from RSA-305-2021. However, reference to facts out of which the other two petitions arise shall also be made, as and where necessary.
FACTS
2. The dispute at hand, yet again, is between a State Grain Procurement Agency and a Rice Miller. The States of Punjab and Haryana have witnesses large scale disputes between the Grain Procurement Agencies and Rice Millers. The dispute, invariably, is non-milling of paddy allotted to a particular Rice Miller, leading registration of FIRs, initiation of arbitration proceedings, filing of civil suits etc. The net result is huge losses, mostly to the State exchequer, though depicted as losses to Rice Millers. The question that arises in the mind of the Court is as to whether such disputes are deliberately raised, or is there some fault in the policies, or is it a criminal meeting of minds aimed at misappropriating public money. Of course, different cases have different facts, but the fact remains that crores of rupees go down th
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