ORDER :

(Heard and pronounced through Blue Jeans App(virtual) mode, since this mode is adopted on account of prevalence of COVID-19 Pandemic).

1. The Writ Petition is filed seeking to declare the order of the 3rd respondent issued in R.C.No.391/2019/C1 dated 27.04.2020 as illegal, arbitrary, violative of principles of natural justice, without jurisdiction and consequently direct the 3rd respondent to permit the petitioner to conduct the business and pass such other orders as deemed fit.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Pleader for Prohibition and Excise appearing for the respondents and with their consent, the present Writ Petition is disposed off, keeping in view the legal issues raised in the present Writ Petition and the relevant precedents governing the same.

3. This is a second round of litigation. The petitioner is a Form 2B license holder to run a Bar and Restaurant as per the provisions of the A.P. Excise (Grant of License of Selling by Bar and Conditions of License) Rules, 2017 and he is conducting the business in the name and style of P.V.R.Restaurant and Bar at Kadiri.

4. As seen from the affidavit filed in support of the Writ Petition, e