IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.16517 of 2009 (O&M) Date of Decision : 29.10.2009 Shri Sai Enterprises .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Ashwani Talwar, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.G.S.Attariwala, Addl. AG. Punjab. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- ORDER Surya Kant, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. Mr.G.S.Attariwala, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, being present in the Court, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Keeping in view the order which I propose to pass, there is no necessity to file reply on behalf of the respondents. In this civil writ petition, the petitioner seeks mandamus to direct the respondent No.2 to register and determine the capacity of the sheller installed by the petitioner and thereafter allocate 4000 meter tonnes of paddy for custom milling of khariff 2009-2010 paddy stocks. C.W.P. No.16517 of 2009 (O&M) 2 The petitioner's case is that vide an application in the prescribed format (Annexure P-9), the Rice Mill established by the petitioner-firm has disclosed its milling capacity and its application has been duly recommended by the District Controller, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Moga to the 2nd respondent vide memo dated 15.10.2009 (Annexure P-11). The petitioner urges that notwithstanding the afore-stated recommendations, no decision has been taken by the Competent Authority-respondent No.2 so far, as a result of which the Rice Mill of the petitioner has not been allocated the paddy for custom milling of Khariff-2009-2010 as per its milling capacity. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and without expressing any view on the merits of the case, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2 to take appropriate decision on the recommendations dated 15.10.2009 (Annexure P-11) and determine the milling capacity of the Rice Sheller of the petitioner as early as possible but not later than 7 days from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Necessary consequences shall also follow. Dasti. 29-10-2009 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE