THE HON'BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No.6405 of 2006 Dated: 10-04-2006 Between: E.Sathyanarayana Goud and six others ..... PETITIONER AND The Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise, Government of A.P., Hyderabad and three others. .....RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No.6405 of 2006 O R D E R: The petitioners seek a writ of Mandamus declaring the alleged inaction on the part of the respondents in issuing the licences to the petitioners to run additional TFT counters as per the report of the third respondent dated 16-03- 2005 as arbitrary and illegal. The material on record shows that the petitioners, who claim to be the tappers, made an application for TCS/TFT and the third respondent-Prohibition and Excise Superintendent, Kurnool having conducted the tappers test, submitted a report dated 16-03-2005 to the Joint Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise, A.P., Hyderabad proposing to establish additional TFT counters in different villages. The only grievance of the petitioners is that in spite of the fact that such a report was submitted long back on 16-03-2005, the respondents failed to take any action to issue licences to the petitioners to run additional TFT counters. An identical question has been considered in W.P.No.17279 of 2005 which was disposed of by this Court by order dated 03-03-2006 with a direction to the respondents to consider the request of the petitioners therein in the light of the excise policy for the year 2004-2005. Since the petitioners herein also stand on the same footing, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to consider the request of the petitioners in the light of the report submitted by the Prohibition and Excise Superintendent, Kurnool dated 16-03- 2005 and the Excise policy for the year 2004-2005 and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ____________ G.ROHINI,J Dated:10-04-2006 Note: Issue C.C. in three days. B/o KLP