IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 11870 of 2009 Between: G. Ramesh S/o. Malakondaiah Annavaram Village, Jaladanki Mandal, Nellore District. ..... PETITIONER AND The Revenue Divisional Officer Kavali Nellore District. .....RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.G.VENKATA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent: AGP FOR CIVIL SUPPLIES The Court made the following : O R D E R: The petitioner is a fair price shop dealer. On the basis of an inspection, stocks were seized from his custody and proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (for short “the Act”) were initiated. Simultaneously, the petitioner’s authorization was suspended by the respondent vide his order dated 31-03-2005. Subsequently, the proceedings under Section 6-A of the Act ended in confiscation. The petitioner filed Criminal Appeal No.5 of 2007 questioning the said order. The learned District and Sessions Judge, Nellore, by his judgment dated 18-09-2007, disposed of the said Criminal Appeal, wherein he agreed with the finding of the District Collector that the petitioner diverted SGRY rice. However, finding that there was no violation or malpractice in respect of other items, the District Judge found that the recovery of value of 13.120 metric tones of rice is disproportionate to the proven irregularity. Accordingly he substituted the penalty with fine of Rs.5,000/-. The grievance of the petitioner is that though the proceedings under Section 6-A of the Act got culminated with the disposal of the appeal by the Sessions Court on 18-09-2007, so far no orders have been passed by the respondent in the proceedings initiated by him in respect of his authorization. I see justification in the grievance of the petitioner on the non-completion of enquiry and passing a final order by the respondent. Therefore, without going into the merits of the case, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondent to complete the enquiry and pass an appropriate order under Andhra Pradesh Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2001, within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. It is made clear that if enquiry has already been completed and an order was passed, no further enquiry need be held and in such a case, the petitioner is entitled to question the order if any, passed by the respondent. As a sequel disposal of main petition, WPMP No.15293 of 2009 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 18th June, 2009 vrn