1. This Full Bench has been constituted to hear this petition under Art.226 of the Constitution on a reference being made by a Division Bench of this Court which initially heard this petition. The Division Bench was of the opinion that there was a conflict between two Division Bench judgments of this Court, one reported in Roopchand v. K.U.M. Samiti, Raipur (1975 MP LJ 326) : (1975 Tax LR 1932) and the other delivered in Girwarlal v. Krishi Upaj Mandi Committee , (MP No. 37 of 1967 decided on 10th April, 1970). The matter was, therefore, placed before the Chief Justice for constitution of a Full Bench to hear this petition. That is how this petition came up for hearing before us.

2. The material facts giving rise to this petition briefly are as follows : The petitioner carried on, at the material time, the business of buying and selling agricultural produce at Petlawad. District Jhabua. Under the provisions of the M.P. Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1960 , the State Government constituted a Market Committee by the name of Krishi Upaj Mandi Samiti, Petalawad, hereinafter referred to as the 'Market Committee', for regulating the purchase and sale of agricultural produce in the ma