IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 10401 of 2008 Between: S.Swamy Goud, S/o. S.Narsa Goud, R/o. D.No.6-2-288/1, Subash Nagar, Nizamabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of Andhra Pradesh, Revenue (Ex.II) Department Secretariat, Hyderabad, rep by its Secretary. 2 The Commissioner for Prohibition and Excise Govt., of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. 3 The Prohibition and Excise Superintendent, Nizambad. 4 The District Collector, Nizambad. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.O.MANOHER REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR PROHIBITION & EXCISE The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.2, in not passing orders in pursuance of Memo No.70274/Ex.11(1) 2007-2, dated 25-03-2008, issued by respondent No.1, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner sought for a consequential direction to respondent No.2 to pass orders forthwith in pursuance of the said memo of respondent No.1. Heard Sri O.Manohar Reddy, learned Counsel for the petitioner, and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Prohibition and Excise for the respondents. Petitioner, who claims to be Chief Promoter of a Toddy Tapers Cooperative Society (TCS), made a representation to respondent No.2 for permission to run new TCS in Nizamabad town. Respondent No.2 forwarded the petitioner’s request to respondent No.1 to clarify whether such a permission can be granted in view of an order of status quo granted by this Court earlier when a license was granted to Toddy Tapers Cooperative Society II in Nizamabad. Having examined the said issue, respondent No.1 vide its memo dated 25-03-2008 while opining that the order of status quo does not bar creation of a new TCS for Nizamabad, permitted respondent No.2 to sanction new TCS group in Nizamabad Municipal Corporation, as recommended by the District Collector, Nizamabad, and after obtaining legal opinion before issue of license to the new shop. The grievance of the petitioner is that despite lapse of substantial time, respondent No.2 has not taken the follow up action. Having considered the submissions of the learned Counsel for the parties and perused the record, I am of the view that interest of justice would be met, if respondent No.2 is directed to pass orders on memo dated 25-03-2008, issued by respondent No.1, on the issue of sanctioning a new TCS group in the Nizamabad Municipal Corporation, within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Subject to the above observation, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP.No.13621 of 2008 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________ (C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J) 02-05-2008 LUR