Ambika Prasad Rajwade And Ors. vs State Of Chhattisgarh And Ors. on 6 September, 2005
In this context he submitted that in M.P. Ration Vikreta Sangh Society v. State of Madhya Pradesh (supra), the Supreme Court has further held that there can be no quarrel with the principles laid down in the Airport Authority case AIR 1979 SC 1628 that if the governmental action disclosed arbitrariness, it would be liable to be invalidated as offending against Article 14 of the Constitution. He submitted that the provisions in Clause 9 of Order 2004 giving priority and making reservations in favour of the Women's Self-Help Groups, Forest Protection Committees, Co-operative Societies of ex-Servicemen are absolutely arbitrary and have no nexus whatsoever with the object sought to be achieved by Section 3 of the Act as well as the Order 2004. Mr. Tiwari also referred to the provisions of Chhattisgarh Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 to show that only LAMPS and Consumer Co-operatives are authorized to sell essential commodities in fair price shops and that the Primary Credit Co-operative Societies are not authorized under the provisions of the said Act to sell essential commodities at fair prices.