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Supplies and services, all supplies are not services and all services are not supplies but the complex needs and samenities of modern life and the multifarious obligations of a welfare State mingle supplies and services so much that the concentric circle geometry becomes a misleading stroke of conceptualism in this journal area. For example, an essential commodity is at once a supply and a service. Rushing food supplies to a nation in hunger is a composite operation of supplies and services essential to the life of the community and the order is not bad because it telescopes both, Jagdish Prasad v. State of Bihar, AIR 1974 SC 911: (1974) 4 SCC 455: (1974) 3 SCR 369.

Indulging in black-marketing is conduct which is prejudicial to the maintenance of supplies. It is hardly necessary to read supplies conjunctively with services as was contended although cases may exist where supplies and services may both be affected. The word 'and' is not used conjunctively but disjunctively. If sweepers' strike, no question of disrupting supplies arises but services essential to the life of the community will certainly he disrupted, Rameshwar Lal Patwari v. State of Bihar, AIR 1968 SC 1303 (1306): (1968) 2 SCR 505 [Preventive Detention Act, 1950, s. 3(1)(a)(iii)]