Can't Issue A Mandamus Directing State To Pay A Minimum Support Price (MSP) For An Agricultural Crop: Patna HC [Read Order]

The Patna High Court on Monday (19th October) observed that pricing and procurement of food-grains for the public distribution system, as also fixing Minimum Support Price is a policy decision which cannot be interfered with by the Court, unless such policy is arbitrary, capricious, whimsical or violative of Article 14/21 of the Constitution of India.The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol...