IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN TUESDAY, THE 3RD APRIL, 2007 / 13TH CHAITHRA, 1930 WP(C).No. 11478 of 2007(N) -------------------------------- PETITIONER: -------------- M/S.DEEPA RESTAURANT, CHERPALCHERY, PALAKKAD, REPRESENTED BY ITS PARTNER RAMACHANDRAN. BY ADV. SRI.V.M.KRISHNAKUMAR SMT.P.A.ANITHA RESPONDENTS: ----------------- 1. THE EXCISE COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONERATE OF EXCISE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. ASSISTANT EXCISE COMMISSIONER, PALAKKAD. BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI.I.V.PRAMOD. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 03/04/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S. SIRI JAGAN, J. ------------------------------------ WP(C) NO. 11478 OF 2007 N ------------------------------------- Dated this the 3rd day of April, 2007 J U D G M E N T The petitioner is a partnership firm who holds an FL-3 licence for conducting a bar hotel from 1990 onwards. The petitioner wants reconstitution of the firm for which sanction of the Excise Commissioner is required under Rule 19 of the Foreign Liquour Rules. He has preferred Exts.P2 to P4 representations for this purpose. He seeks a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass appropriate orders on Exts.P2 to P4 representations, expeditiously. 2. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner as also the learned Government Pleader. 3. In the facts and circumstances of the case, there would be a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass appropriate orders on Exts.P2 to P4 representations as expeditiously as possible, at any rate within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment. I make it clear that I am not considering the entitlement of the petitioner for such sanction. The writ petition is disposed of with the above direction. Mbs/ S. SIRI JAGAN, Judge WP(C) NO. :-2-: Mbs/ S.SIRI JAGAN, J ------------------------------------ W.P.(C) NO. OF 2001 ------------------------------------ WP(C) NO. :-3-: J U D G M E N T DATED:13-02-2007 WP(C) NO. :-4-: