IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARUN-UL-RASHID MONDAY, THE 29TH AUGUST 2011 / 7TH BHADRA 1931 WP(C).No. 13818 of 2004(T) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- V.L. ITTICHEN, AGED 80 YEARS, S/O. LATE LONAPPAN ITTIACHEN, LICENSEE, FL-3 NO.TSR-82/03-04, HOTEL MERLIN INTERNATIONAL THRISSUR DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.C.C.THOMAS, SENIOR ADVOCATE SRI.M.G.KARTHIKEYAN SRI.NIREESH MATHEW RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY SECRETARY (TAXES), GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE EXCISE COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. THE ASST.EXCISE COMMISSIONER, THRISSUR. R1 TO R3 BY SRI. K.RAMESH -GOVERNMENT PLEADER THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 29/08/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: WPC 13818/2004 APPENDIX PETITIONER's EXHIBITS P1-PHOTOCOPY OF THE ORDER NO. XC6-22336/03 DATED 28.8.2003 PASSED BY THE 2ND RESPONDENT. P2-PHOTOCOPY OF THE REVISION PETITION DATED 3.9.2003 SUBMITTED BEFORE THE 1ST RESPONDENT. P3- PHOTOCOPY OF THE LETTER DATED 24.3.2004 ISSUED BY THE 1ST RESPONDENT TO THE PETITIONER. EXT.P4- PHOTOCOPY OF THE APPLICATION DATED 21.3.2011 SUBMITTED BEFORE THE 2ND RESPONDENT. RESPONDENTs EXHIBITS :NIL. TRUE COPY P.A. TO JUDGE HARUN-UL-RASHID, J. --------------------------------------- W.P.(C) No. 13818 of 2004 --------------------------------------- Dated this the 29th day of August 2011. JUDGMENT Petitioner is the holder of licensee, FL3-No.TSR-82/03-04, Hotel Merlin International, Thrissur. The petitioner submitted an application as Ext.P4 to regularise the changes incorporated in the attached building and site plan on 21.3.2011 before the 2nd respondent. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Ext.P4 application is pending before the 2nd respondent Excise Commissioner. The counsel for the petitioner further submits that a direction may be issued to the 2nd respondent to consider and dispose of Ext.P4 within a time frame to be fixed by this Court. 3. In the said circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the 2nd respondent to consider and pass appropriate orders on Ext.P4 application expeditiously, at any rate, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment after affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner. The writ petition is disposed of as above. HARUN-UL-RASHID JUDGE al