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2. The case of the 1st appellant as disclosed in the affidavit filed in support of the above mentioned writ appeals is as follows ; The 1st appellant is a partnership firm established in 1950 registered under the Indian Partnership Act. The firm owns a tea factory, wherein tea is manufactured from green tea leaves and thereafter it is marketed. The partners of the firm are major shareholders in Silver Cloud Estate Private Limited, owning 200 acres of tea plantation, known as 'Silver Cloud Tea Estate' and 50 per cent interest in another 20 acres known as 'Bar-wood Estate'. Both these tea estates have no factory of their own and they supply their produce, green tea leaves to the appellant factory under a permanent arrangement. The 1 st appellant factory buys about 20% of their annual total green tea leaves from small growers in and around Gudalur. The normal channels for the marketing of the tea are :