second appellant is a licensee of l.M.F.S. Shop No. 336 at No. 7,
Thyagaraja Road, Madras - 17 for the year ... business of vending I.M.F.S. in retail
in their respective shops. The licence was valid for a period of one year.
Under
Whether Rules 4(2) and 9(10)(b) of the Kerala Abkari Shops Disposal
Rules, 2002 (for short "the Rules") are ultra vires ... federation of trade unions of toddy tappers
and workers in toddy shops situate in the State of Kerala.
The Abkari Act was enacted
bottle at specified rates. The notification further
directed that where new shops were required to be opened
licences would be disposed of by public auction ... Bharucha's case
(supra) the auction sale of country liquor shop under Excise
Regulation 1 of 1915 was challenged on the ground that
petition have been
filed on behalf of the different licensees of the shops in
the shopping complex known as Palika Bazar which was built ... resolution dated 29.11.1977, N.D.M.C
decided to allot 98 shops to shopkeepers of Panchkuian Road
because the space occupied by them
respondents not to interfere in the peaceful
functioning of fair price shop in Gram Sabha Ardauna, Tehsil Sadar,
District Mau.
2. The facts that formed ... bedrock of the writ petition are that a
fair price shop being shop no. 2 was run by the 5th respondent in Gram
Sabha Ardauna
Government governing the
mode of grant of licences, called the Kerala Abkari Shops
(Disposal in Auction) Rules, 1974. Rule 6 prescribes the
general conditions applicable ... licensees of arrack shops,
both retail and wholesale. Sub-rule (26) of Rule 6 which
constitutes the basis of the later judgment of the Division
auction the
exclusive privilege. of selling by retail, country liquor in
8 shops. The respondent was the highest bidder but his bid
was rejected because ... called for
and the appellant accepted the tender in respect of one shop
and rejected the others as it was again of the opinion that
stand of the first respondent in refusing to allot certain shop premises to the petitioners. Facts pleaded in the writ petition
3. A commercial complex ... India, in the wake of Partition. The scheme envisioned allotment of shops in the complex, known as ''Pleasure Garden'' (hereafter
calendar year.
Rule 4 provides for formation of groups of liquor shops; clause (iii) whereof
prohibits an applicant/firm/company from obtaining licences for more ... than
two groups of shops. Rule 5 provides for the period of licence which would
be for an excise year or part thereof. Rule
follows:-
During the last world war, Indian Railway opened grain shops
to supply foodgrams at cost priced to its employees
throughout the country. Staff ... this temporary grain-shop
complex was drawn from 3 different sources:-(i) Temporary
employees selected through the Joint Selection Commission
etc. who were initially appointed
