IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13127, 13140 & 13617 of 2005 Between: Reliance Foods and Bevarages Chintalapudi, West Godavari District, … Petitioner (in WP.No.13127 of 2005) Godavari Crystal Water, R.K. Food Industries, Palakol, West Godavari District. … Petitioner (in WP.No.13127 of 2005) M.R.D. Packaged Drinking Water M.R.D. Industries, Eluru. … Petitioner (in WP.No.13127 of 2005) AND The District Collector, West Godavari District, Eluru & others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri Janardhana Rao for (in all writ petitions) Sri K. Chidambaram Counsel for respondents : GP for Medical, Health & (in all writ petitions) Family Welfare Counsel for respondent No.5: Sri S. Nageswara Reddy (in WP.Nos.13140 &13617 of 2005) This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13127, 13140 & 13617 of 2005 COMMON ORDER:- At the interlocutory stage, all the writ petitions are taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. Since these three writ petitions involve common questions, they are being heard together and disposed of by this common order. Heard Sri Janardhana Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Medical and Health and Sri S. Nageswara Rao, learned Standing Counsel for the Municipality. In all these writ petitions, the petitioners are aggrieved by the action of the respondents in closing the water-manufacturing units being run by them on the ground that they do not possess BIS certificate. At the hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners fairly stated that possession of BIS certificate is sine qua non for carrying on the activity of manufacturing of drinking water and the action of the respondents in stopping such activity in the absence of such a certificate cannot be faulted. In view of the same, the writ petitions are dismissed. Liberty is, however, given to the petitioners to obtain the BIS certificates and seek revival of the units thereafter. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petitions, WPMP.Nos.16677, 16693 and 17276 of 2005 and WVMP.Nos.2138, 2135 and 2137 of 2005 are disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 18.06.2008 ES