THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT APPEAL NO.219 OF 2010 12th April 2010. Between: V.SUNITHA DEVI .. APPELLANT AND THE GOVT. OF A.P., THRU THE SECRETARY TO GOVT., CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLIES DEPT., SECRETARIAT, HYDERABAD AND OTHERS .. RESPONDENTS THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT APPEAL NO.219 OF 2010 O R D E R: (Per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Nisar Ahmad Kakru) 1. The petitioner/writ appellant responding to the notification inviting applications for grant of dealership in respect of Fair Price Shop Kandanelly Thanda, H/O.Kandanelly village, Peddemul Mandal, Ranga Reddy District came to be provisionally selected on the basis of written examination held on 20-11-2009 and during the process of verification of his antecedents it came to the notice of the competent authority that her husband happens to be a government employee working as a Foreman in Health Department and by due adherence to the principles of natural justice she was put on notice to show cause, if any, against cancellation of her candidature. The said show cause notice was questioned by medium of a writ petition and during the currency of the writ petition an order of cancellation was passed which came to be questioned through yet another W.P.No.5199 of 2010 on the strength of clause 12 (iii) of the guidelines relating to the selection and appointment of Fair Price Shop Dealers, extracted for facility of reference hereunder; “ (iii) Close relatives of Government employees specially those working in Civil Supplies Department or Revenue Department or the Civil Supplies Corporation or Village Administrative Officer of the village shall not be appointed as F.P. Shop Dealers” 2. The main contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner before the writ court was that the clause aforementioned is attracted in case of those persons only whose close relatives are employees of the Civil Supplies Department, Revenue Department, Civil Supplies Corporation or Village Administrative Officer and is not applicable to the relatives of the government employees of other departments which is answered by the learned single Judge to the contrary on the ground that the general rule disqualifies the close relatives of all the government employees to the appointment as a Fair Price Shop dealer irrespective of the Department they belong to. The view taken by the learned single Judge receives full support from the expression “close relatives of government employees” employed in the guidelines, accordingly we concur with the interpretation placed by the writ court, for, it fully serves the purpose of the guidelines. Resultantly writ appeal fails and is dismissed. SANJAY KUMAR, J. NISAR AHMAD KAKRU, C.J. 12TH April, 2010. Nagesh Babu THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT APPEAL NO.219 of 2010 O R D E R: (Per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Nisar Ahmad Kakru) 12th April 2010.