IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 19636 of 2008. Date of Decision: 7th January, 2009. M/s N.S.Rice Mill ..Petitioner through Mr. N.S.Modi, Advocate Versus State of Punjab & Ors. Respondents through Mr. G.S.Attariwala, Addl.AG, Punjab. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT. 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? SURYA KANT, J. [ORAL) The petitioner is running a Rice Mill. Its grievance is against the lifting of the paddy which was entrusted to it for milling purposes by the State Government. It is not in dispute that the petitioner Mill was allocated 90,300 paddy bags for milling. However, out of those, 780 bags are reported to have been lifted by the respondent authorities in order to hand-over the same to some other Rice Miller. The petitioner's grievance is that like previous years, it ought to have been allocated paddy for milling purposes as per its capacity. Notice of motion was issued and in response thereto, the respondents have filed their counter-affidavit. It is averred that as per clause 8[d] of the Government Policy for Allocation of Paddy, the purchased paddy is required to be equitably distributed amongst all the Rice Millers and it was in order to adhere to the said notified policy that a part of the originally allocated paddy had to be lifted from the petitioner and entrusted to some other Rice Mill. Preliminary Objection No. [d] taken by the respondents in their counter-affidavit to this effect reads as under:- “[b] That as per policy letter Annex-I page 8, Allotment of Paddy Policy has been laid down and in para-C, it is stated that Paddy procured by the agencies will be equitably distributed amongst all the eligible rice mills at the particular centre for the purpose of custom milling on the basis of their milling capacity which shall be certified by the District Food and Supplies Controller and as per provisions of this policy. It is further added that to ensure equitable distribution of paddy speedy milling of the agencies paddy, the rice mills located at the temporary purchase centres/katchi mandis would be considered at par with the mills located at the main/permanent storage/milling centre”. During the course of hearing, Mr. Attariwala, learned Additional Advocate General, Punjab, on instructions from Ram Singh, Assistant Food and Supplies Officer, Nabha, submits that there will be no further lifting of the paddy from the petitioner Rice Mill. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and keeping in view the fact that the respondents' endeavour is to equitably distribute the paddy procured by all its agencies amongst all the eligible Rice Mills for the purpose of custom milling, which has been fixed keeping the milling capacity in view, no interference is called for by this Court, more so in view of the stand taken on behalf of the respondents that there shall be no further lifting of the paddy from the petitioner. Disposed of. January 07, 2009. ( SURYA KANT ) dinesh JUDGE