https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174077 Khandsari sugar manufactured by the open pan process was treated as falling within the inclusive statutory definition of agricultural produce, because the term was to be understood in its popular and commercial sense and the product was not shown to trade as something distinct. On that basis, licence fee and market fee under the market regulation law were held to be within the Act's scope and object. The differential treatment between khandsari and plantation white sugar was upheld as a rational classification tied to process, regulation, and market context, so no Article 14 violation was found. en-us Fri, 22 Feb 1985 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:49:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174077 Khandsari sugar manufactured by the open pan process was treated as falling within the inclusive statutory definition of agricultural produce, because the term was to be understood in its popular and commercial sense and the product was not shown to trade as something distinct. On that basis, licence fee and market fee under the market regulation law were held to be within the Act's scope and object. The differential treatment between khandsari and plantation white sugar was upheld as a rational classification tied to process, regulation, and market context, so no Article 14 violation was found. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 22 Feb 1985 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174077