HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.15050 of 2010 Date : 2-12-2011 Between : Tanneru Sambasiva Rao .. Petitioner And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Secretary to Government, Department of Prohibition and Excise, Chilakaluripet, Guntur District and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri J. Sudheer Counsel for respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Prohibition and Excise The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is ﬁled for a mandamus to direct the respondents to permit the petitioner to continue the sale of liquor in retail in respect of shop No.219, Ward No.3, Chilakaluripet, beyond 30-6-2010 till a fresh licence is granted for the Excise Years 2010-12. The petitioner was an A-4 licencee for the period 2008-2010, in respect of shop No.219, notiﬁed in the Gazette. Accordingly he was running the said shop. When fresh tenders were invited for grant of excise licences for the years 2010-12, one person by name A.Radha Krishna Murthy, ﬁled W.P.No.12219/2010 questioning the tender notiﬁcation wherein the area/locality in which the shops are proposed to be located has not been specified. This Court by order dated 1-6-2010, granted interim stay of the auction with liberty to the respondents to proceed with the same after notifying the area/locality in which the shops are proposed to be located. On the ground that the petitioner is denied the opportunity of continuing with his licence on account of the litigation, he has ﬁled the present Writ Petition to permit him to run the shop till the auction is held. In strict sense, with the expiry of the petitioner’s licence, he loses his right to carry on the business, more so, when the business relates to sale of liquor in which no citizen can claim fundamental right to carry on the said business. Therefore, no mandamus can be issued to the respondents to permit the petitioner to carry on the business beyond his licence period. At any rate, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Prohibition and Excise stated that the order in W.P.No.12219/2010 was subsequently vacated and that the auction was held. In view of the subsequent events, the cause on which the Writ Petition was filed, does not survive for adjudication. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed. As a sequel, WPMP No.18957/2010 is disposed of as infructuous. _________________________ Date : 2-12-2011 Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy AM