1. These appeals arise out of a common order passed by our learned brother Gopalakrishna Nair, J. whereby he struck down on certiorari G. O. No. 2976, dated 30-12-1964 as bad in law and issued a writ of Mandamus in favour of all the Writ Petitioners directing the respondents, i.e., The District Collector, Hyderabad, the State of Andhra Pradesh and the Commissioner of Civil Supplies to forbear from acting under the authority or in pursuance of the said G. O. and refrain from interfering with the carrying on of the wholesale business in sugar by the petitioners' firm under their licences.

2. The facts leading to these proceedings may be shortly stated. The petitioners who are 25 in number have been dealing from a long time in sugar along with other articles in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. In or about the year 1963 conditions of scarcity of the commodity in the m