UP to file SLP against HC order on cane price

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Posted: Wednesday, Aug 20, 2008 at 2244 hrs IST
Updated: Wednesday, Aug 20, 2008 at 2244 hrs IST

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Lucknow, Aug 19 : The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court to contest Monday’s Allahabad High Court order which had quashed the earlier decision taken by its Lucknow Bench over the price for sugarcane advised by the state government and had instead ordered mill owners to pay farmers as per the statutory minimum price fixed by the Centre. Terming Monday’s high court order as “unacceptable”, UP cane commissioner HS Das said all three orders of the Allahabad HC, the Lucknow Bench of the HC and the apex court were contrary to each other and therefore confusing. “While the interim order of the Lucknow Bench of the High Court had on November 15 last year directed payments to be made to cane growers at the rate of Rs 110 per quintal, the order was later challenged in the Supreme Court which refused to grant relief to the petitioners. However, in its final verdict dated July 7, 2008, the Lucknow Bench dismissed the petition saying it found the SAP for the year 2007-08 to be valid. Now the Allahabad HC has ordered that sugar mill owners should pay the cane growers at the rate of Rs 86 per quintal as fixed by the Centre. This was a situation that is confusing,” he stated.

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