(1.) THE appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent and the Civil Writ Petition may be disposed of by a common judgment. We proceed to do so.
(2.) IN 1966, the Government of Punjab announced its 'new Policy' in regard to industrial Development and issued a brochure containing the details of the 'new policy'. It was stated in the brochure that though Punjab had made considerable progress in 'small Scale Industry', the State was lagging behind in 'large Scale industry. ' As it was felt that 'large Scale Industries' were necessary for the survival of 'small Scale Industries', the Government announced that 'a package of incentives' would be given to those setting up selected industries at any of the three 'focal points' of Dhandari Kalan, Rajpura and Mohali. The concessions and incentives offered, according to the brochure, were:
(3.) AMRIT Banaspati Co. Ltd. (Respondent in the Letters Patent Appeal and the petitioner in the Civil Writ Petition) who was already engaged in the business of manufacture of Vanaspati at Ghaziabad was attracted by the concessions and incentives offered by the Government of Punjab and started negotiations for the setting up of a factory for the manufacture of Vanaspati in Punjab. They wrote a letter dated 1-6-1968 to the Chief Minister of Punjab with copies to the secretary, Industries Department, Director of Industries etc. requesting information regarding the concessions and facilities which would be made available if they set up a Vanaspati Unit in Punjab. In reply to this letter, the director of Industries sent them a copv of the booklet mentioned by us, and briefly summarised in his letter dated 2-7-1968 the important concessions, which were available, as follows:-