1970 (10) TMI 85

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..... lhi under Article 226 of the Constitution for the issuance of writs, directions or orders as the case may be requiring the Union of India to release and deliver to the appellants some consignments of maize transported from the State of Haryana to Howrah in West Bengal during the month of October, 1967. Their case is that the movements of maize had been controlled by the provisions of the Essential .....

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..... d. Thereafter the persons responsible for the export were prosecuted and those prosecutions were pending. 2. The contention of the Union is that the State of Haryana had not lifted the ban on export and further it had no power to lift the ban. Hence the export was illegal and as such the railways authorities were competent to withhold the delivery of those goods. 3. The principal questions that .....

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..... the High Court to pronounce on the questions arising for decision in the writ petitions. In our opinion the High Court seriously erred in coming to this conclusion. If the appellants are to establish their Case that the ban on export of maize from the State of Haryana had been validly lifted all the proceedings taken against those who exported the maize automatically fall to the ground. Their mai .....

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