HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.16522 of 2010 Date : 2-12-2011 Between: Nallamilli Satyanarayanareddy .. Petitioner And The Assistant Commissioner/Superintendent, Prohibition and Excise, West Godavari District and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri Naram Nageswara Rao Counsel for respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Prohibition & Excise The Court made the following: ORDER: Feeling aggrieved by location of the shop for sale of liquor under A4 licence by respondent No.3 in the premises adjacent to the petitioner’s house, the present Writ Petition is filed. At the hearing, Sri Naram Nageswara Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that location of the liquor shop in a residential locality causes serious inconvenience and hardship to the residents of the area and that the respondents have not taken any action for closing of the shop by respondent No.3 even though a representation was made on 9-7-2010. The learned Assistant Government Pleader for Prohibition and Excise, on instructions, submitted that in the ﬁrst place, the area in which respondent No.3 is permitted to run the liquor shop is not a residential area. She further submitted that there is no prohibition under the A.P. Excise (Lease of Right of Selling by Shop and Conditions of Licence) Rules, 2005 (for short “the Rules”) for location of a shop for sale of liquor under A4 licence in a residential area; that restrictions on selection of premises are governed by Rule 27 of the Rules and that location of the shop to sell liquor in a residential area is not included in those restrictions. The learned counsel for the petitioner is unable to point out any provision of law under which an A4 shop cannot be established in a residential area. For the above mentioned reasons, I do not ﬁnd any merit in the Writ Petition and hence the same is dismissed. As a sequel, WPMP Nos.20825 and 35469 of 2010 are disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy Date : 2-12-2011 AM