IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANTONY DOMINIC TUESDAY, THE 1ST APRIL 2008 / 12TH CHAITHRA 1930 WP(C).No. 10981 of 2008(G) -------------------------- PETITIONERS: ---------------- 1. CHINNAMMA YOHANNAN, LICENSEE, A.W.D.NO.1 KOTTARAKKARA TALUK, KOLLAM DISTRICT. 2. R.SANTHA, LICENSEE, A.W.DS NOS.II AND X, KOTTARAKKARA TALUK, KOLLAM DISTRICT. 3. M.C.SAMUEL, LICENSSE, A.W.D.NO.II, KOTTARAKKARA TALUK, KOLLAM DISTRICT. 4. R.SASIDHARAN, LICENSEE, A.W.D.NO.IV, KOTTARAKKARA TALUK, KOLLAM DISTRICT. 5. R.VANAJAKSHI AMMA, LICENSEE,A.W.D.NO.VII KOTTARAKKARA TALUK, KOLLAM DISTRICT. 6. T.OMMEN PANIKAR, LICENSEE, A.W.D.NO.IX, KOTTARAKKARA TALUK, KOLLAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.C.A.MAJEED RESPONDENTS: ----------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY SPECIAL SECRETARY, FOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLIES, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. DIRECTOR OF CIVIL SUPPLIES, DIRECTORATE, BOARD OF REVENUE, REVENUE BUILDINGS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. DISTRICT COLLECTOR, CIVIL STATION, KOLLAM. 4. TALUK SUPPLY OFFICER, KOTTARAKKARA, KOLLAM. 5. DISTRICT SUPPLY OFFICER, CIVIL STATION, KOLLAM BY GOVT.PLEADER SRI.I.V.PRAMOD THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 01/04/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: ANTONY DOMINIC, J. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = W.P.(C) No. 10981 OF 2008 G = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Dated this the 1st April, 2008. J U D G M E N T In this writ petition the petitioners' complaint is against the insistence of the respondents that they should install electronic weighing machine in their godowns. Petitioners are authorised wholesale distributors of rice and other articles given in the Public Distribution System. 2. If in order to ensure accuracy of the weight the respondents have decided that the distributors should maintain electronic weighing machines this Court will not be justified in sitting in judgment over the wisdom of such a decision. I do not find anything illegal in the instructions so issued. 3. The complaint of the petitioners is that the godowns are dusty and therefore there is every possibility of the machine giving incorrect readings. I am sure, the authorities when they have issued the directions, would have taken into account this possibility as well. W.P.(C) No. 10981 OF 2008 -2- Now when the electronic machines are too common and popular, this argument raised by the learned counsel is totally unacceptable in the absence of anything illegal in the directions issued. I am not prepared to issue any of the directions sought for. If at all the petitioners are aggrieved, it is for them to move the authorities concerned. Writ petition fails and is dismissed. ANTONY DOMINIC JUDGE jan/-