IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 22730 of 2009 Between: Madamala Papi Reddy ..... PETITIONER AND The Joint Collector, Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore District, Nellore & another. .....RESPONDENT(S) THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.22730 of 2009 ORDER: 1 The petitioner approached this court and filed the present Writ Petition stating that though his authorization is in force, the respondent authorities have abruptly stopped supplying essential commodities on account of which he is unable to distribute the essential commodities to the cardholders. 2 The petitioner was initially given authorization to supply essential commodities on 20.03.1997. Thereafter the same was renewed from time to time. If it is a fact that the petitioner’s authorization is renewed from time to time and is in force as on date, in my considered view, the respondent authorities cannot stop supplying essential commodities. So long as the petitioner’s authorization is in force, without recourse to the provisions of the Control Order, 2008 i.e. suspending the authorization or canceling the authorization, the respondent authorities cannot stop supply of the essential commodities. 3 In that view of the matter, this Writ Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission with a direction to the respondents to supply the essential commodities to the petitioner enabling the petitioner to supply the same to the cardholders so long as the authorization of the petitioner is in force as on date. --------------------------- 22.10.2009 kvsn