THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.12816 OF 2010 DATED:08.06.2010 Between: Sri Bapuji Yuvajana Seva Sangham .. Petitioner And The State of Andhra Pradesh rep., by its District Collector (CS), Prakasam District, Ongole and others .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.12816 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioner is a society which was appointed as a permanent Fair Price Shop (FPS) dealer for FPS No.2, Ponnalur Village and Mandal, Prakasam District. The shop was inspected on 14.08.2009. Having found certain alleged irregularities, action was initiated by the third respondent under Clause 5(5) of the Andhra Pradesh State Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2008 (hereafter Control Order). The authorization was suspended on 22.08.2009. The petitioner preferred an appeal to the second respondent and also sought for stay. The stay was granted on 29.08.2009. Subsequently, the second respondent allowed the appeal and remanded to the third respondent who by an order dated 21.04.2010 cancelled the authorization. The petitioner then preferred an appeal under Clause 20(1) of the Control Order to the second respondent along with stay application. As no orders are passed, the present Writ Petition is filed. As held by this Court in Mir Fazle Ali Nasiri v State of Andhra Pradesh[1], the jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India cannot be exercised to give directions to the public authorities to dispose of the matter within a specified time to maintain timeliness, especially when there are no such statutory or legal propositions in mandating expeditious dealing of the matters. However, learned Assistant Government Pleader after getting instructions submits that the Joint Collector is likely to pass orders within two weeks and the same is recorded and the matter is disposed of observing that the Joint Collector may immediately pass orders within two weeks from today on the stay petition filed by the petitioner. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of giving liberty to the petitioner to approach the Joint Collector, along with the copy of this order. No order as to costs. ______________ (V.V.S. RAO, J) 08.06.2010 Note:- Dispatch C.C. by 09.06.2010. (B/o) KH [1] 2007 (2) ALD 3