WP(C) 6483/2010 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE U. B. SAHA The grievance of the writ petitioner in the instant writ petition is tha t though the Deputy Commissioner, Morigaon, passed an order on 20.10.2009 (Annex ure- C to the writ petition) in terms of the order-dated 07.09.2009 passed by th is court in Writ Petition (c) No. 2852/2009, inter alia that the petitioner lice nsee would be allowed to run his fair price shop for 1340 Nos. of population, bu t the Moirabari Gaon Panchayat Samabai Samittee Ltd. was not issuing PDS commodi ties to the petitioner’s fair price shop for the aforesaid population of 1340 nu mbers and consequent thereto, the petitioner preferred representations to the Di rector of Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Govt. of Assa m, respondent No. 2, on 25.10.2010 and 23.11.2010 (Annexure- D and E respectivel y to the writ petition) wherein the petitioner informed the respondent No. 2 tha t the President and the Secretary of the Moirabari Gaon Panchayat Samabai Samite e Ltd. run a fair price shop without license and when the petitioner sought for certain information from the office of the Deputy Director, Food and Civil Suppl ies and Consumer Affairs Department, Morigaon, under the Right To Information Ac t, the petitioner was threatened by the aforesaid Deputy Director and Inspector. Hence this writ petition. Heard Mr. D.P. Chaliha, learned senior counsel assisted by Ms. S.M. Chou dhury, learned counsel for the petitioner as well as Mr. G. Soren, learned Govt. Advocate, Assam, appearing for the State respondents. While urging for the relief sought for, Mr. Chaliha, learned senior coun sel submits that the entire writ petition can be disposed of with a simple direc tion to the respondent No. 2 to examine the representations of the petitioner an d consider the same and also pass necessary reasoned order and the same may be c ommunicated to the petitioner. Mr. Soren, learned Govt. Advocate, in his usual fairness did not oppose the submission of Mr. Chaliha as the present writ petitioner earlier also approa ched this court by filing a writ petition and this court directed the respondent s therein to take note of the grievance of the petitioner and to decide the same in consultation with the respondent Nos. 3, 4 and 5 thereto and if necessary al so heard the respondent Nos. 6 and 7. As the main grievance of the petitioner is that the fair price shop run by him is not getting the required commodities from the respondent No. 5 to supp ly the same to the ration cardholders, the petitioner is prejudiced as well as t he ration cardholders are also suffering. According to this court, it would meet justice, if the writ petition is disposed of with a direction as submitted by M r. Chaliha and not opposed by Mr. Soren, the learned Govt. Advocate. Accordingly, the respondent No. 2 is directed to dispose of the represen tations of the petitioner dated 25.10.2010 and 23.11.2010 (Annexure- D and E re spectively to the writ petition) within a period of one month from the date of r eceipt of this order by a reasoned order. While disposing the representations of the petitioner, the respondent No. 2 also takes note of the problems faced by t he respective ration cardholders who are taking ration commodities from the fair price shop run by the petitioner. Till the disposal of the representations by t he respondent No. 2, the Moirabari Gaon Panchayat Samabai Samittee, the responde nt No. 5 shall supply the ration commodities to the petitioner’s fair price shop as per the population mentioned in the order dated 20.10.2009 (Annexure-C to th e writ petition). The petitioner is also directed to furnish a copy of this ord er alongwith the copy of the writ petition within a period of seven days from to day. With the above observations and directions, this writ petition is dispos ed of.