THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.24029 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioner is a dealer of fair price shop No.1 situated at Chetyal Village, Mirdoddy Mandal, Medak District. On receipt of the complaints, the fourth respondent – Tahsildar, Mirdoddy Mandal, inspected her fair price shop on 21.08.2009 and found that the petitioner is selling PDS kerosene oil illegally. Based on the report submitted by the fourth respondent, the third respondent - Revenue Divisional Officer, Siddipet vide his order, dated 24.08.2009 suspended the petitioner’s authorisation pending enquiry. The second respondent - Joint Collector, Medak District at Sangareddy, initiated proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and ordered for sale of the seized stock and accordingly, the seized stock was sold and the sale proceeds were deposited in the Government account. The said order of suspension passed by the third respondent is questioned in this writ petition. The contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the third parties, who are enmical to the petitioner made false allegations against her and without looking into the truth or otherwise of the same, the third respondent straight away suspended the fair price shop authorization of the petitioner. Heard. Prima facie, there is an allegation against the petitioner. Whenever a report is furnished by a competent officer like Tahsildar, the first step that would be taken by the authorities is suspending the authorization of a fair price shop dealer and thereafter, follow the procedure i.e. issuing show cause notice, holding enquiry and passing final orders. Whether the said allegation is true or not is ultimately for the third respondent to decide during the course of enquiry. The impugned order is only a suspension pending enquiry. As there is a right of appeal to the petitioner against the said order, this Court is not inclined to entertain this writ petition. However, as the petitioner has agreed to face the enquiry, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the third respondent to complete the enquiry at the earliest, preferably, within a period of six (6) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In the event the third respondent fails to complete the enquiry within the above stipulated time, he shall restore the fair price shop authorization of the petitioner and permit her to distribute the scheduled commodities to the cardholders during the pendency of the said enquiry. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 9th NOVEMBER, 2009. kvni