IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.4023 of 2005 Between: Ganga Sai Packaged Drinking Water Industry Gunj Road, Jagtial, Karimnagar District & others. … Petitioners AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, rep., by its District Collector & Magistrate, Karimnagar. … Respondent Counsel for the petitioners : Smt. P. Aruna for Sri C. Ramesh Sagar This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.4023 of 2005 ORDER:- This writ petition is filed for a writ of Certiorari to quash order dated 12.02.2005 of the Collector (CS), Karimnagar. Heard Smt. P. Aruna representing Sri C. Ramesh Sagar, learned counsel for the petitioners. No one appeared for the respondents. A perusal of the impugned order shows that the Collector and District Magistrate, Karimnagar, called upon the petitioners to stop, within 15 days, carrying on the trade of manufacture of packaged drinking water without BIS certificate. Under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 and also the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, which replaced the former, it is incumbent upon any manufacturer to obtain BIS certificate for manufacture of packaged drinking water. This condition being unexceptional, I do not see any illegality in the order passed by the Collector and District Magistrate, Karimnagar in calling upon the petitioners to close their units without BIS certification. The writ petition is therefore dismissed. It is, however, made clear that if the petitioners have already obtained individual BIS certificates, they are entitled to resume their business after giving necessary information to the District Collector. If they have not already got the certification and obtain such a certification in future, as and when they get such certification, they can resume their business after giving notice to the District Collector. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, WPMP.No.5405 of 2005 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 23.06.2008 ES