S. K. PHAUJDAR, J.

( 1 ) ALL these writ petitions relate to grant of letters of intent (LOIs, in brief) to different industrial undertakings for setting up new sugar mills at different places in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The above petitions have been filed by existing sugar mills and by certain competitors and the LOIS have been challenged on different grounds. On the basis of the points raised, writ petitions may be categorised in 3 classes : (1) Petitions in which the guidelines of the Government have been challenged as having violated the provisions of Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution; (2) the petitions in which the validity of the guidelines have not been seriously challenged but the action of the Government have been challenged on the ground that the guidelines have been violated; and (3) one petition in which a competitor for a location of a new sugar mill has challenged the LOI in favour of another on the ground of nonobservance of statutory provisions of certain Acts and Rules.

( 2 ) WE shall come to the details of these petitions in subsequent paragraphs.

( 3 ) THE sugar industry is a controlled industry in the sense that the Government has a control on the sugarca

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