HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.1536 & 1537 of 2011 Date : 29-1-2011 Between: Smt.A.Rajitha w/o.Jagan Reddy .. Petitioner And The Special Grade Deputy Collector and Revenue Divisional Officer, Ranga Reddy, East Division, Ranga Reddy District and another .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri R.Radha Krishna Reddy Counsel for respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies The court made the following : COMMON ORDER: These two Writ Petitions arise out of common order in proceedings No.C/4320/2010, dated 24-1-2011 whereby respondent No.1 has cancelled the fair price shop dealerships of the petitioners. I have heard Sri R.Radha Krishna Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies, representing the respondents. The petitioners are dealers of fair price shops Nos.1 and 2 of Manchal village, respectively. On the report submitted by the Deputy Tahsildar (Enforcement), Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy District, proceedings for cancellation of authorisations of the petitioners were initiated. The gravamen of the allegation against the petitioners is that they have illegally sold subsidy wheat at higher price to the card holders during the month of November 2010. To the show cause notices dated 20-12- 2010, the petitioners have submitted interim replies on 10-1- 2011 wherein they have requested respondent No.1 to supply copies of the report of Deputy Tahsildar (Enforcement), Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy District, which are shown as the sole basis for the proposed action against the petitioners. It is the pleaded case of the petitioners that such letters were received by the office of respondent No.1 on the same day on which they were written i.e., 10-1-2011. The copies of the letters with seal of the office of respondent No.1 have also been filed by the petitioners. However, by the impugned orders, respondent No.1 has cancelled the petitioners’ authorisations. At the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that even though the petitioners sought for copies of report of Deputy Tahsildar (Enforcement), which was made the sole basis for the proposed cancellation of the authorisations, having received the letters, respondent No.1 has neither supplied the report to the petitioners nor assigned any reasons for non-supply of the same. The case was passed-over in the forenoon to enable the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies to get instructions from the respondents as to whether the letters dated 10-1-2011 sent by the petitioners were received in the office of respondent No.1. The learned Assistant Government Pleader, on instructions, submitted that those letters were in fact received on the same day. The impugned orders of cancellation are based on the report of the Deputy Tahsildar (Enforcement), Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy District. Principles of natural justice require that before relying upon any adverse material, the authority concerned is bound to supply the same to the person against whom such material is sought to be used. Though the petitioners have made specific requests for supply of copies of the report of the Deputy Tahsildar (Enforcement), respondent No.1 has neither supplied the copies nor even referred to the petitioners’ requests. This approach of respondent No.1 constitutes patent arbitrariness and displays utter lack of fairness on his part. I find justification in the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioners that respondent No.1 has acted with indecent haste in passing the impugned orders cancelling the authorisations of the petitioners despite his receiving requests from the petitioners to supply copies of the report of the Deputy Tahsildar (Enforcement). The impugned orders, therefore, suffer from manifest illegality and patent arbitrariness apart from serious transgression of principles of natural justice. For the above mentioned reasons, the impugned orders are quashed and the Writ Petitions are allowed. ____________________ C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy.,J Date : 29-1-2011 AM