IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 24834 of 2007 Between: A. Gopal Goud S/o. Hanumanthu Goud R/o. Lokireveu Village, Nawabpet Mandal, Mahabubnagar District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Prohibition & Excise Superiantendent, Mahabubnagar , Mahabubnagar. 2 The Prohibition & Excise Inspector, Mahabubnagar , Mahabubnagar. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.T.PRASANNA KUMAR Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR PROHIBITION & EXCISE The Court made the following : ORDER: At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Prohibition and Excise. The petitioner was granted TFT license on 20.07.2004, with effect from 23.07.2003. Admittedly, under the Rules then in force and also under the new Rules, which were notified in G.O.Ms.No.1228, dated 19.09.2007, maximum duration of TFT licenses is only five (5) years. However, G.O.Ms.No.1229, dated 19.09.2007 envisages that the license issued to the Toddy Tappers Cooperative Societies and Tree for Tapper Schemes under the Andhra Pradesh Excise (Tapping of trees and Toddy shops special conditions of licenses) Rules, 1969 and in pursuance of the toddy policy guidelines issued from time to time shall cease to be in force with effect from 01.10.2007. The respondents have, therefore, taken the stand that the license of the petitioner ceased to be in force by 30.09.2007 and hence, the respondents prevented the petitioner from carrying on the business. The learned counsel for the petitioner stated that though he approached respondent No.2 with an application for grant of a new TFT license on 12.12.2007, no action has been taken by him so far. The learned Assistant Government Pleader stated that respondent No.1 is the licensing authority and that if the petitioner makes a proper application to him, he will consider and dispose of the same. In the light of the submissions of the learned counsel, the writ petition is disposed of. The petitioner is permitted to make a fresh application for grant of TFT license according to the present policy within a period of four (4) weeks from today. On receipt of such application, respondent No.1 shall consider and dispose of the same within a period of four (4) weeks thereafter. It is made clear that till the license is granted to the petitioner, he shall not be entitled to carry on the business. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, interim order, dated 30.11.2007 is vacated and WPMP.No.32343 of 2007 and WVMP.No.432 of 2008 are dismissed. C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 11th MARCH, 2008 kvni