IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.24683 of 2007 Between: P. Kadiyala Devika, W/o. Rajendra Prasad @ Jayachandra Prasad, R/o. Chowdepalle, Chittoor District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalle, Chittoor District. 2 The Tahasildar, Chowdepalli (M), Chittoor District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.K.RAMAMOHAN-MAHADEVA Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR CIVIL SUPPLIES The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for quashing notification, dated 03-11-2007, issued by respondent No.1, by way of issuance of writ of certiorari. The petitioner is the daughter-in-law of a permanent Fair Price Shop dealer viz., Sri K.Lakshmaiah, on whose death, the vacancy for the dealership of Fair Price Shop No.9 of Chowdepalle Mandal, Chittoor District, was notified. She felt aggrieved by the action of respondent No.1 in reserving the said vacancy for persons belonging to Backward Caste (for short ‘BC’) categories only. According to the petitioner, out of 32 Fair Price Shops in Chowdepalle Mandal, 11 Fair Price Shops were already allotted to BC candidates and therefore, as the said community was already over represented, there was no need for a further reservation in its favour and the action of the respondents in reserving the above-mentioned shop also for BC candidates is illegal. In the counter-affidavit filed by respondent No.1- Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalle, it is stated that G.O.Ms.No.53, dated 06-10-2003, inter alia provides for 25% reservation for persons belonging to BC community and that the backlog at Revenue Division level is 74 in respect of the said category. It is further stated that under the above-mentioned GO, Revenue Division shall be taken as a unit and not a Mandal or Village. It is further stated that as no interim order was granted in this Writ Petition, 10 candidates were interviewed and one M.Kishore Babu, Son of M.Shankarnarayana was selected and appointed vide proceedings, dated 26-11-2007. No reply-affidavit is filed by the petitioner controverting the above-mentioned averments. Inasmuch as the huge backlog of 74 vacancies in the BC category were required to be filled up, this Court finds no illegality in the impugned notification. For the above-mentioned reasons, the Writ Petition fails and it is, accordingly, dismissed. ___________________________ (C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J) 7th July, 2009 lur