IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY THURSDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND NINE ONLY WRIT PETITION No.21735 of 2006 Between: Smt.P.Suneetha. ..... PETITIONER AND The District Collector, Anantapur, Anantapur District and three others. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the petitioner: Sri M.Ganga Rao. Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Civil Supplies for R.1 to R.3. None for R.4. This Court made the following: ORDER:- At the interlocutory stage, this Writ Petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. In the year 2005, the petitioner was appointed as a temporary fair price shop dealer of Shop No.1 of Bukkapatnam village and Mandal. On the ground that he was not supplied with essential commodities for the month of September, 2006 and, instead, respondent No.3 issued release order in favour of respondent No.4, who is not a fair price shop dealer, the petitioner filed the present Writ Petition. The petitioner averred that her temporary authorization was neither suspended nor cancelled. In the counter-affidavit filed by respondent No.2, along with the vacate stay petition, it is, inter alia, stated that as the petitioner failed to remit the cost of essential commodities for the month of September, 2006 either on 15-9-2006 or thereafter by producing necessary demand drafts, the commodities attached to her fair price shop were distributed through Sri Chintakayala Ravi, fair price shop dealer of shop No.5 of Bukkapatnam village. The official respondents denied entrustment of distribution of essential commodities to respondent No.4. At the hearing it is admitted that in view of the interim order granted by this Court on 27-10-2006 the petitioner is continuing as a fair price shop dealer. It is also not disputed that her temporary authorization is still subsisting. It is needless to observe that so long as the petitioner’s authorization subsists, she is entitled to distribute the essential commodities. Subject to these observations, the Writ Petition is disposed of. ----------------------------- ------- C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:11-6-2009. MNR