The Hon’ble Sri Justice C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy Writ Petition No.6511 of 2010 Dated 21st July, 2010 Between: M/s.Bheemas Restaurant & Bar …Petitioner And The Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad and 3 others. …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Sri Mavidi Rama Rao Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Home 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 parties. This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to set aside Memo No.L&O/A2/134/2010-01, dated 17-03-2010, issued by respondent No.1. The petitioner is a Bar and Restaurant. It has applied for grant of Police license on 23-01-2010. In pursuance of the said application, the Officers of the Traffic branch have inspected the premises, where the petitioner- Bar & Restaurant is located, and reported to respondent No.1 that there is no exclusive parking available for the petitioner and that the customers are parking their vehicles in front of the petitioner- Bar & Restaurant on the foot path causing obstruction to the passengers and the vehicular traffic. While admitting the Writ Petition on 23-03-2010, this Court granted the following interim order: “The petitioner shall be permitted to run the Bar and Restaurant in terms of the excise licence obtained by him subject to the following terms: (1) The respondents shall not interfere with the petitioner’s business of running the bar ad Restaurant strictly in terms of the excise licence so long as the said licence subsists. (2) The petitioner shall not allow the vehicles of his customers to be parked on footpaths, road margins or other public places and (3) If the vehicles of the petitioner’s customers are parked in area other than the specifically earmarked parking place of the petitioner, the respondents shall be free to take appropriate action.” The respondents have filed the vacate stay application to vacate the said interim order. At the hearing, Sri Mavidi Rama Rao, learned Counsel for the petitioner, submitted that after filing of this Writ Petition, the petitioner has acquired additional area meant for exclusive parking of the petitioner- Bar & Restaurant and that his client is prepared to satisfy respondent No.1 in this regard if an opportunity is given to it. The learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home representing the respondents submitted with all the emphasis at her command that as the petitioner has failed to provide sufficient parking area, the order passed by respondent No.1, rejecting the Police license, cannot be interfered with. Undoubtedly, insistence on providing adequate parking is in public interest. It cannot be gainsaid that one of the main reasons for the traffic congestion is parking of the vehicles on the footpaths and other open areas meant for public and vehicular movement. But, this Court finds that there appears to be lack of coordination between the Excise and the Police departments. Under the A.P.Excise Act, 1968, and the Rules made thereunder, the Excise officials are required to approve the premises before granting license. Ironically, while the Excise officials propose by approving locations, the Police officials dispose by declining to grant licenses on the ground of shortage of parking area. This is resulting in causing severe hardship to the licensees as they cannot afford to close the business, after paying lakhs of rupees as license fees to the State through the Excise department, on the objection raised by the Police department. If there is proper understanding and coordination between these two departments, this situation can be avoided. Respondent No.1 may, therefore, take appropriate measures to coordinate with the Excise department and ensure that the said department does not approve the locations for establishing Bars & Restaurants unless the requirement of providing sufficient parking area is satisfied by the licensee. In the light of the stand taken by the petitioner that it has acquired additional parking area, which would satisfy the parking requirement, the Writ Petition is disposed of in the following terms: (1) Within three weeks from today, the petitioner shall make a fresh application for grant of Police license along with the relevant material to show that it has acquired sufficient parking place; (2) On receipt of the said application, respondent No.1 shall consider the same, pass appropriate order and communicate the same to the petitioner and; (3) Till the above exercise is completed, the petitioner shall be permitted to run the Bar & Restaurant. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, interim order, dated 23-03-2010, is vacated and WPMP.No.8401 of 2010 and WVMP.No.2614 of 2010 are disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 21st July, 2010 lur