THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.26347 of 2009 ORDER: Pursuant to the notification issued by the Revenue Divisional Officer to fill up the vacancy of Fair Price Shop dealer of Shop No.1 of Dampuru Village, Vidavaluru Mandal, Nellore District, the petitioner and third respondent have submitted their applications. The Revenue Divisional Officer, after considering the said applications, appointed the third respondent as the Fair Price Shop Dealer. Questioning the same, the petitioner approached the Joint Collector and filed an appeal in the month of March, 2009, but so far, the appellate authority has not passed any orders. Hence the petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. When once an appeal is preferred by the petitioner the statutory authority has to decide the appeal either way, so that, the aggrieved person can approach the other forum. As the grievance of the petitioner is that though he has preferred the appeal as early as in March 2009 no action has been taken, this Court directs the Joint Collector to dispose of the appeal preferred by the petitioner as early as possible, preferably, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this Order. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________________ (GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J.) 3rd December, 2009 Js.