THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.28418 of 2007 ORDER: Petitioner is a fair price shop dealer. His business premises was inspected by the officials of Civil Supplies Department on 27.11.2007 and stock position was verified. On the ground that certain variations were noticed when compared the book balance with the ground balance, available quantities were seized. Consequently, proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 were initiated. When the supplies to the petitioner were stopped without initiating any independent proceedings under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh State Public Distribution System Control Order, 2001 (for short ‘the Control Order’), action of the respondents in not supplying the essential commodities to the fair price shop, for which, the authorization is held by the petitioner, was questioned. By way of interim order, dated 04.01.2008, this Court issued directions to the respondents to supply the essential commodities to fair price shop No.19 of Itikayalapalli Village, Gokavaram Mandal, East Godavari District, provided the authorization of the petitioner is neither suspended nor cancelled. The said interim order continued all along. Though the writ petition is of 2007, no counter-affidavit is filed. When the matter is taken up, it is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that even during pendency of the writ petition, no proceedings are initiated to cancel the fair price shop authorization of the petitioner. In that view of the matter, in view of the interim orders passed by this Court and in the absence of initiating any independent proceedings under the provisions of the Control Order, which was in force during relevant point of time, I deem it appropriate to direct the respondents to supply the essential commodities in respect of fair price shop No.19 of Itikayalapalli Village, Gokavaram Mandal, East Godavari District, on the authorization held by the petitioner. It is made clear that if the petitioner commits any illegality violating the provisions of the Control Order and the conditions of authorization, this order will not preclude the respondents from taking appropriate steps in accordance with law. Subject to the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _______________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J 18th OCTOBER, 2011. kvni