IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION NO :13515 of 2007 Dated: 28th June 2007. Between: I.Hari Babu, S/o Subba Rao, aged about 47 years, F.P.Shop Dealer, Shop No.20, Ethamukkala Village, Kothapatnam Mandal, Prakasam District. ..... PETITIONER AND The Joint Collector, Ongole, Prakasam District and others. .....RESPONDENTS THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO W.P.NO.13515 OF 2007 ORAL ORDER: Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies and with their consent the writ petition is heard finally and disposed of at the stage of admission. The writ petitioner was a fair-price shop dealer at Ethamukkala Village, Prakasam District. By an order passed on 09-02-2005, the Revenue Divisional Officer, Ongole, removed the writ petitioner as fair-price shop dealer, duly canceling the authorization granted in his favour. Since an appeal is provided against the said order, the writ petitioner has preferred an appeal before the Joint Collector, Ongole, on 15-02-2005. The petitioner asserts that the said appeal has not been decided by the Joint Collector, Ongole, so far. There is hardly any justification to keep the appeal pending for so long and, therefore, the writ petitioner seeks a direction that the appeal may be taken up for consideration at the earliest and be decided. In these peculiar set of circumstances, the Joint Collector, Ongole, is directed to take up the appeal said to have been preferred by the writ petitioner on 15-02- 2005, hear him and pass appropriate orders thereon within a period of three months from today, at any rate, before the end of September 2007. With the above directions, the writ petition is, therefore, disposed of at the stage of admission. -------------------------------- Nooty Ramamohana Rao, J 28th May 2007 mrk