HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL WRIT PETITION NO. 658 OF 2009 (MS) Balvinder Singh ……….. Petitioner. Versus State Bank of Uttarakhand and others. ……. …. Respondents Mr. Vijay Bhatt, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. K.P. Upadhyay, Addl. Chief Standing Counsel for State of Uttarakhand. 5th May, 2009 Hon’ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J. This writ petition is being disposed of at the admission stage. The grievance of the petitioner is that earlier the fair price shop was allotted in favour of his mother and after her death, there had been a resolution of Gram Panchayat to the effect that fair price shop should be allotted to the petitioner, which also has approval of the Village Development Officer. The petitioner now states that there are government orders to that effect and in such a contingency the fair price shop is liable to be allotted in favour of the petitioner. The petitioner states that there is a representation of the petitioner pending before the District Supply Officer/respondent no.2, who has to decide the matter in accordance with law. Therefore, the District Supply Officer, Udham Singh Nagar/respondent no. 2 is directed to decide the representation of the petitioner regarding allotment of the fair price shop as expeditiously as possible in any case within a period of six weeks form the date the certified copy of this order is produced before the District Supply officer. With the aforesaid direction, writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. (Sudhanshu Dhulia, J.) 05.05.2009 Rathour