THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA WRIT PETITION No :27799 of 2010 DATED:10-11-2010 Between: Mauri Narayana Rao. ..... PETITIONER And Home and Cinematograph Act Department, Rep. by the Government of A.P., Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENT ORDER: Petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondent in not passing order on the appeal filed by him in Endorsement No.666 on CI & PR under the provisions of the A.P.Cinema (Regulation) Act, 1955 (for brevity, ‘the Act’), as illegal and arbitrary. 2. The petitioner states that aggrieved by the order, dated 24-06-2010 in Rc.No.C1 1970/2002, dated 09-03-2010, passed by Joint Collector, Vizianagaram District, revoking the licence of Balaji theatre (earlier Venugopal Talkies), he preferred appeal along with stay application to the respondent-Government under Section 7(2) of the Act r/w Rule 18 of the A.P.Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1970 on 03-07-2010, and it is his grievance that the respondent neither passed order on the stay application nor disposed of the appeal. 3. Heard the counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Home for the respondent. 4. Since the appeal filed by the petitioner is pending, the respondent is directed to either dispose of the appeal or pass orders on the stay application expeditiously, preferably within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 5. Accordingly, Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________ N.V.RAMANA,J 10th November, 2010. Tsy