CWP No. 11835 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No. 11835 of 2009 Date of decision 4 .12.2009 Vijay Kumar and others ... Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ... Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Mr. Harsh Garg ,Advocate for the petitioners Mr. R.D.Sharma, DAG Haryana for the respondents 1.To be referred to the Reporter or not ? 2.Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest ? M.M.KUMAR, J. The petitioners have approached this Court with a prayer for issuance of direction to the respondents for ensuring a uniform pricing throughout the State of Haryana in respect of wholesale liquor sellers who are issued L-1 licensees. The petitioners are retail-sellers holding L2 licensees and they are aggrieved as level playing field have not been provided as the price of the liquor in the adjoining district of Sirsa is much more. In para 6 of the written statement, specific stand taken is that the quota of Hisar district in respect of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) is much more than that of district Sirsa. There are only 3 LI licensees in district Hisar whereas there are 4 LI licenses in district Sirsa. Various factors like transportation charges, location and rent of the building where the business is run, salary of the employees and volume of sale influence the fixation of price by a retail licencee holding L2 licence. As of necessity CWP No. 11835 of 2009 2 not only IMFL quota varies from district to district the price would also vary. Having heard learned counsel for the parties, we are of the view that there is no violation of either any statutory provision or the liquor policy of the respondent- State for the year 2009-10 which may warrant issuance of any direction for fixation of price of liquor dealt by LI licencees which may be due to various local factors like cost of transportation, rent of building and salary of the employees besides the variation in the sale. Therefore, it is not possible in the absence of any statutory duty or duty cast by the policy to issue directions to the State of Haryana to fix price of liquor which is sold by the wholesale dealer holding LI licence. There is thus no merit in the petition. Dismissed. (M.M.Kumar) Judge (Jaswant Singh) 4.12.2009 Judge okg