IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13932 of 2009 1. RAMANAND PRASAD S/O LATE HAJARI PRASAD VILL.- SANKHE KHAS, POLICE STATION- UCHAKAGAON, SUBDIVISION HATHUA, DISTT.- GOPALGANJ Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE SECRETARY FOOD SUPPLY AND COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, OLD SECRETARIAT, PATNA 3. THE SUB-DIVISIONAL OFFICER HATHUA, DISTT.- GOPALGANJ 4. THE BLOCK SUPPLY OFFICER UCHAKAGAON BLOCK, DISTT.- GOPALGANJ ----------- 5. 4.05.2010 Petitioner is a dealer under Public Distribution System. For certain derelictions, a show-cause notice was issued to him and after perusing the show-cause, his security amount was ordered to be forfeited with a warning to be careful in future. Subsequent thereto, there was again a report against him for which another show-cause was issued to him and his licence was suspended. On receipt of show-cause, this time his licence was cancelled by the S.D.O. Petitioner’s appeal to the Collector was dismissed. Petitioner has challenged the impugned orders of cancellation and the appellate order before this Court. It is submitted that the licence having been suspended, the suspension would not continue beyond 90 days and as such, any proceeding taken thereupon is invalid. 2 In my view, the ground is misconceived. The action was taken in the year 2004-05. At that time Bihar Trade Articles Licenses Unification Order, 1984 was in force under which there was a separate provision for interim suspension followed by cancellation in terms of clause 11 thereof. That being so, the action taken by the authorities cannot be questioned on legal grounds. The petitioner then tried to approach this Court to enter into controversies of facts. The two authorities having held against the petitioner on facts, I am not inclined to interfere in the matter. The writ application is accordingly dismissed. V.K. Pandey (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.)