IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH: HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.19395 OF 2009 BETWEEN: Smt. Y. Sujatha W.o. Adi Narayana Reddy …. Petitioner AND The Joint Collector, Anantapur, Anantapur District and Others. …. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.19395 OF 2009 ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed by the petitioner seeking a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not releasing the essential commodities quota to the petitioner, as illegal and arbitrary and consequently direct the respondents to release the essential commodities quota. 2. The case of the petitioner, in brief, is that she is appointed as Fair Price Shop Dealer of Shop No.8 of Polepalli Village, Ramagiri Mandal, Anantapur District under a valid authorization dated 11-09-2008 and the same is valid for a period of 2 years from the date of its issue. Since then, she has been distributing the essential commodities to the cardholders regularly without any complaints whatsoever. But, the respondent authorities have not released the quota of essential commodities for the month of September 2009, though the petitioner paid the requisite amount by way of demand drafts and submitted the same to the Tahsildar, Rayadurg Mandal, Anantapur – respondent No.3 for supply of essential commodities. Therefore, the petitioner made a representation to respondent No.3, but as it went in vain, she filed a petition before the Joint Collector, Anantapur District - respondent No.1 on 09-09-2009 requesting him to direct respondent No.3 to release the quota of essential commodities for the month of September 2009. In spite of that no orders have been passed on the said petition. Hence, she approached this Court with the present writ petition. 3. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies. 4. It is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the authorization of the petitioner as fair price shop dealer is in force. When once the said contention is accepted to be true, the respondent authorities are duty bound to supply the quota of essential commodities to the petitioner. 5. Having regard to the submission made by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the authorization of the petitioner as fair price shop dealer is in force, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission, with a direction to the respondent authorities to supply the essential commodities to the petitioner enabling her to supply the same to the card holders, if the authorization of the petitioner as fair price shop dealer is in force as on today. However, this order does not preclude the respondent authorities to complete the proceedings initiated under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act as early as possible, preferably, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No order as to costs. __________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J September 11, 2009. KTL/KVSN