IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.4095 of 2011 Date of Decision : March 08, 2011. Balwinder Sharma .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.H.S.Dhandi, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. Ms.Monica Chhibber Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Let three copies of the writ petition be supplied to her during the course of day. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to seek any counter reply from the respondents at this stage. The petitioner seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to issue a licence to him to run the Fair Price Shop Depot in village Shahpur Kalan, District Sangrur, in terms of the order dated 18.11.2010 (Annexure P-4) passed in his favour by the Deputy Director (Field), Food and Supplies Department, Patiala Division, Patiala. C.W.P.No .4095 of 2011 2 It may be mentioned here that the Gram Panchayat of the village passed a resolution on 20.1.2010 (Annexure P-1) for establishment of a new Fair Price Shop Depot, followed by another resolution dated 4.8.2010 requesting the authorities of the Food and Civil Supplies Department, Lehra Ghagga to allot the Depot to the petitioner as he is an unemployed youth of the village. It was pursuant to the recommendations made by the Gram Panchayat of the village and the fact that the petitioner was fully eligible that respondent No.2 vide order dated 18.11.2010 (Annexure P-4) accepted the recommendations of the Assistant Food and Civil Supply Officer, Lehra Ghagga and forwarded the petitioner's case to the District Controller, Food & Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Sangrur to issue the formal licence in favour of the petitioner. The petitioner avers that pursuant thereof, he was asked by respondent No.3 to deposit an amount of Rs.1500/- as licence fee for which a signed challan form was also issued by respondent No.3 but later on, it was scored off for the reasons best known to respondent No.3. It appears from the record that the petitioner despite an order passed by respondent No.2 has not been granted the formal licence by respondent No.3 for insufficient reasons. However, without expressing any final views on the merits of the petitioner's claim at this stage, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondent No.3 to immediately act upon the memo/order dated 18.11.2010 Annexure P-4) passed by respondent No.2 and take a final decision in the matter within a period of two weeks from the date of receiving a certified copy of C.W.P.No .4095 of 2011 3 this order. Let a copy of this order be supplied dasti to Ms.Monica Chhibber Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, for information and necessary compliance. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. March 08, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE