THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.24095 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioner was appointed as a fair price shop dealer of Dimmagudi Village, Peddavaduguru Mandal, Anantapur District, in 2008. On the ground that she has committed irregularities in distributing the scheduled commodities to the cardholders, the third respondent – Tahsildar, Peddvaduguru, issued a show cause notice, dated 17.07.2009 to her. She alleges that without giving any opportunity to her to submit her explanation, the third respondent passed order, dated 14.08.2009 suspending her fair price shop authorisation pending final action by the second respondent – Revenue Divisional Officer, Anantapur. Aggrieved by the said order, she filed an appeal before the second respondent and also an application for stay. On the ground that the second respondent has not passed any order in the appeal, the petitioner filed W.P.No.17584 of 2009, in which, this Court by order, dated 25.09.2009 directed the second respondent to dispose of the appeal within a period of four (4) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of that order. She states that the second respondent vide order, dated 13.10.2009 cancelled her fair price shop authorisation. As against the said order of cancellation, the petitioner approached the Joint Collector on 31.10.2009 and filed an appeal along with the stay application seeking suspension of the said order. However, as no orders have been passed as yet, the petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. Apparently, the petitioner is not distributing the scheduled commodities from 14.08.2009 i.e. for the last more than two months. Hence, this Court is of the view that the Joint Collector can be directed to dispose of the said appeal at the earliest, preferably, within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If for any reason, the Joint Collector does not dispose of the said appeal within the time specified above, the petitioner’s authorisation shall be restored and she shall be permitted to distribute the scheduled commodities to the cardholders during the pendency of the appeal. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 9th NOVEMBER, 2009. kvni