Petitioners submitted before the court that they had supplied sugarcane to a sugar mill for the season 2017-18. However, sugar mill deliberately and with malafide intention delayed the starting of crushing season 2017-18 in blatant violation of Section 2(h) of Sugar Factories Control Act, 1950. It appears that the purpose and motive of such delay was to frustrate the growers, so that purchase of sugarcane at throw away price be secured, petitioners stated.
After rounds of litigation, SHC in C.P No.D-7951/2017 finally settled that the Sugar Mills would purchase sugarcane at Rs.160/- per 40kg. However, at the behest of might and authority, the sugar mills have made a mockery of this settled position and have made payments at Rs130/40kg.
However, since the crushing was too late, therefore, one sugar mill started blackmailing tactics and was not purchasing sugarcane from growers through their own grower codes rather purchased the sugarcane from petitioners as well as other growers.