IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 19205 of 2009 Between: B.Ravinder. . .Petitioner And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. By its Commissioner of Civil Supplies and others. .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.19205 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner is the fair price shop dealer of Venkatraopally village and the Tahsildar, Chityal Mandal, Warangal District suspended the authorization of the petitioner as fair price shop dealer on 09.07.2009 on the ground that the petitioner is not distributing the schedule commodities to the card holders in accordance with the provisions of the Control Order. Questioning the said order of suspension dated 09.07.2009, the petitioner approached the Joint Collector-appellate authority, 2nd respondent herein, and filed an appeal on 14.07.2009. But, so far the 2nd respondent-appellate authority has not passed any orders either in the stay petition or in the appeal. Hence, he approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for civil supplies. Having regard to the fact that the petitioner had already approached the appellate authority and filed an appeal, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to the 2nd respondent-appellate authority to dispose of the said appeal within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If for any reason, the appeal is not decided as stated supra, the authorization of the petitioner shall be restored and he shall be permitted to distribute the schedule commodities to the card holders in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Control Order pending disposal of the said appeal. With the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. No order as to costs. ________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J September 11, 2009 KSH