C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy, J.

1. These five writ petitions are filed by five fair price shop dealers, feeling aggrieved by separate but identical show cause notices-cum-suspension orders passed by respondent No. 2.

2. Barring W.P. No. 25826 of 2014, the impugned orders are ipsissima verba. The only additional allegation in W.P. No. 25826 of 2014 is that the petitioners fair price shop is being run benami by one R. Prabhakar Reddy.

3. On 04.09.2014, this Court granted interim orders in favour of the petitioners, while adjourning the case by two weeks for filing counter-affidavits by the respondents. Again on 18.09.2014, the cases were adjourned at the request of the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies for filing counter-affidavits. Today, at the hearing, the learned Assistant Government Pleader has requested for further time for filing counter-affidavits. As sufficient time was granted to the respondents for filing counter-affidavits, I do not find any reasonableness in the request of the learned Assistant Government Pleader for further time for filing counter-affidavits.

4. I have heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Government P