Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 272 · Decided 6 November 1972
The Panipat Co-Operative Sugar Mills v. The Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 272 · [1973] 2 S.C.R. 860
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1357/1972
- Decided
- 6 November 1972
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, A.N. GROVER, KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW, A.K. MUKHERJEA, Y.V. CHANDRACHUD (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Essential Commodities Act (10 of 1955); s.3 (3C)cls. (a) to (d)-­ Scope of. From 1958 and even earlier,. ex-factory prices of sugar were worked out or. the basis of cost-schedules prepared by expert bodies appointed for !hot purpose. The prices in the cost schedules were prepared in respect of and not in relation only to that part of it which was required to be sold to government (referred to as levy sugar), although, partial control in one form or another was in vogue. Such cost-schedules were prepared on the basis of average duration and recovery i the minimum price of cane, the
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