IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 18979 of 2009 Between: M/s.Crop Chemicals (India) Ltd., Guntur . .Petitioner And The Commissioner & Director of Agriculture, Hyderabad. .. Respondent THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.18979 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner filed this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondent in not considering the application dated 27.07.2009 made by the petitioner herein to sell insecticides/pesticides/weedicides in the State of Andhra Pradesh under Section 13 of the Insecticides Act, 1968, (for short ‘the Act) read with Rule 10(4A) of the Insecticides Rules, 1971 (for short ‘the Rules’) as illegal, arbitrary, unconstitutional and consequently direct the respondent to consider the application dated 27.07.2009 for permitting the petitioner to sell insecticides/pesticides/weedicides in the State of Andhra Pradesh. 2) The grievance of the petitioner is that he gave an application as early as on 27.07.2009 by enclosing all necessary documents in accordance with the provisions under Section 13 of the Act, read with Rule 10(4A) of the Rules and no orders have been passed against the said application so far. 3) Since the grievance of the petitioner is against non- disposal of its application, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to the respondent to consider and dispose of the petitioner’s application in terms of the provisions under Section 13 of the Act, read with Rule 10(4A) of the Rules within a period of Six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 4) Accordingly, this Writ Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J September 09, 2009 KSH