IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 21595 of 2009 Between: Smt.Patti Sujatha . .Petitioner And The Revenue Divisional Officer, Kamareddy and another. .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.21595 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner filed this Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of Mandamus to declare the impugned order dated 15.06.2009 in proceedings No.B1/1050/2009 passed by respondent No.1, Revenue Divisional Officer, Kamareddy, suspending the authorization of petitioner as fair price shop dealer of shop No.2 of Gandhari Village and Mandal, Nizamabad District and continuation of the same as illegal, arbitrary and violation of principles of natural justice and consequently set aside the said suspension order in the interest of justice. 2. The brief facts are that the petitioner is fair price shop dealer of Shop No.2 of Gandhari village and is running the same since 1996. On 11.06.2009 respondents 1 and 2 inspected the said fair price shop suspended the authorization of fair price shop of the petitioner vide its order dated 15.06.2009 in proceedings No.B1/1050/2009 on the ground that there are certain variations in the stock position. The allegation of the petitioner is that though four months have been elapsed, neither the respondents have issued any show cause notice nor initiated any enquiry after suspension of the authorization and hence, the petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. 3. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies. 4. Having regard to the fact that the authorization was suspended as early as on 15.06.2009, this writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to the 1st respondent to complete the enquiry at the earliest, preferably, within a period of Six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and pass appropriate order in accordance with law. However, if the said enquiry is not completed within the aforesaid period of six weeks, the petitioner’s authorization shall be restored during the pendency of the enquiry. 5. With the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J October 09, 2009 Note: Issue C.C by 12.09.2009. (B/o) KSH