ORAL JUDGMENT

(PER: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N.V. ANJARIA)

Preferred by the Union of India, the challenge in this appeal is addressed to order dated 5th September 2024 passed by learned Single Judge in the pending writ petition.

2. The prayer in the writ petition filed by the petitioner- South Indian Sugar Mills Association, Karnataka-respondent No.1 herein, was to set aside Notification dated 26th December 2023. Also was the prayer to direct the respondents to remove the sugar from the purview of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987.

2.1 By the said Notification dated 26th December 2023 of the Ministry of Textiles, issued in exercise of powers conferred under Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987 (hereinafter referred to as ‘JPM Act’), it is provided that 100% food grains and 20% sugar of the total production shall be required to be packed in jute packaging material manufactured in India from raw jute production in India.

2.2 Learned Single Judge passed interim order dated 5th September 2024 and stayed the Notifications dated 26th December 2023 which was valid upto June 2024 a