THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.25073 of 2002 ORDER: In this Writ Petition, petitioner has questioned letter No.3162/B/2002, dated 09.12.2002 addressed by the first respondent – Assistant Controller, Legal Metrology, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Vijayawada, insisting it to avoid dip measurement system while entrusting the products to its branches. The petitioner is a mutually aided cooperative society registered under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies Act, 1995. It is engaged in the business of purchasing petroleum products from the manufacturers and sale of the same in its branches and retail outlets. While delivering various kinds of lubricants to its branches for sale, instead of giving lubricants by volume, they are giving by means of obtaining readings of the height of the column of the lubricants in the oil drums supplied by the oil companies. The said measurement is known as dip measurement. By considering the representations of the trade unions of various branches of the petitioner society, the impugned letter is addressed instructing it to sell the lubricants by volume as the lubricants are in liquid form. In this Writ Petition, mainly, it is the case of the petitioner that the manufacturer sends to it the products by adopting dip measurement system and the same is being accepted universally even before the retailers as such there is no reason for insisting it to sell the lubricants by volume. Its further case is that for the purpose of sale of petroleum products by volume, it needs additional manpower. It is also the case of the petitioner that in the absence of any such application on the part of it, no letter could have been issued. A detailed counter-affidavit is filed by the first respondent. In the said counter-affidavit, it is stated that the procedure for sale of lubricants is governed by the Andhra Pradesh Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Rules, 1986, as per Rule 11(d) of which, lubricants which are in the form of liquid are to be sold by volume and that the petitioner is not following the said procedure and in view of the representations filed, such directions are issued by the respondents. In that view of the matter, basing on general practices, the petitioner cannot sell the products by dip measurement system and allowing it to sell the products by same system would run contrary to Rule 11(d) of the Rules referred to above. For the aforesaid reasons, I do not find any illegality in the instructions issued by the first respondent to the petitioner society in the impugned letter. The Writ Petition is devoid of merit and it is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. ______________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J 29th NOVEMBER, 2011. kvni