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That the aforesaid Committee has been holding meetings from time to time and taking decisions regarding the prices at which the Corporation would purchase the forest produce from the Forest Department."

The petitioner further submitted that the State and all its functionaries were duty bound to act fairly and reasonably in the discharge of their official functions. The conduct of the respondent-corporation in allegedly denying to the writ petitioner the benefit of the Pricing Committee which was stated to be otherwise binding on the corporation in accordance with the Clause 51 of the Memorandum of Association, was alleged to be amounting to actionable wrong which entitled the petitioner to seek appropriate directions from the Court to direct the respondent-corporation to give effect to the said decision and the appellant to issue direction to the Corporation to carry out all the directives of the Pricing Committee in relation to the forest produce sold in favour of the corporation by the writ petitioner out of Kutlehar forest. A Committee constituted for the purposes of settling the matters between the Government and the Forest Corporation in pursuance of Clause 51 of the Memorandum of Association could not be termed to be a quasi judicial tribunal the decision of which could be binding upon the State for the purpose of the writ petitioner as well. Clause 51 authorises the Stete Government to issue appropriate directions, from time to time, as might be considered necessary in regard to the exercise and performance of the function of the Corporation in the matters involving substantial public interest and in like manner might vary and annul any earlier direction. Directions thus issued are required to be duly complied with and given immediate effect to. Memorandum and Articles of Association regulated the conduct of the appellant and respondent Nos. 2 herein, which was not in any way, intended to be made applicable to other persons such as the respondent No.1 herein.