IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 20181 of 2008 Between: E.Rajasekhar Goud, S/o. Narasimhulu, Magathi Village (Ward No.3 & 4), Nandavaram Mandal, Kurnool District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District Collector, Kurnool, 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Adoni, Kurnool district, 3 The Tahsildar/Mandal Revenue Officer, Nandavaram Mandal, Kurnool District. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue "a Writ of Mandamus for a direction to respondents to continue the petitioner as F.P.Shop Dealer of Mugathi Village, Nandavaram mandal, Kurnool District, by supplying the Essential Commodities to the Writ Pettioner, pending Revision dated 14.07.2008 before respondent No.1 in the interest of justice Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.M.JANARDHAN RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR CIVIL SUPPLIES The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 20181 of 2008 ORAL ORDER The petitioner is the authorized dealer of the fair price shop of Ward No.3 and 4, Mugathi village Nandavaram Mandal, Kurnool District. His authorization was cancelled by the 2nd respondent-the Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer by order dated.10-07-2008 on the ground of certain irregularities observed by the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer in his visit to the fair price shop on 07-12-2004. Aggrieved by the said order of cancellation, the petitioner preferred an appeal before the Joint Collector, Kurnool district along with an application for stay of operation of the order dated.10-07-2008. Alleging that the Joint Collector fail to consider his appeal and no orders have been passed even on his application for stay, the present writ petition is ﬁled seeking a Mandamus directing the respondents to continue the petitioner as fair price shop dealer pending the statutory appeal. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies appearing for the respondents. As noticed above, the petitioner’s authorization was cancelled on the ground of irregularities allegedly committed by the petitioner in the year 2004. Though his authorization was suspended on 15-12-2004, the petitioner states that by virtue of the order of this Court in W.P.No.19295 of 2004 the petitioner was allowed to continue to distribute the commodities till his authorization was cancelled on 10-07-2008. In the circumstances, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the Joint Collector, Kurnool to dispose of the appeal pending on his ﬁle by following due process of law as expeditiously as possible preferably within a period of four(4) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Till such time, the order of cancellation passed by the 2nd respondent dated.10-07-2008 shall not be given effect to. No order as to costs. _________________ MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI 18th September,2008 Note: Operative portion by wire at party’s cost. (B/o) *TSNR