ORDER :

This Writ Petition has been filed by the Petitioner seeking the following relief :

“to declare the order of the 1st respondent issued in Rc.E.1036/2008, dated 07.11.2008 bifurcating the fair price of shop of the petitioner i.e., FP shop No.34 of Kaligiri Village and Mandal, SPS Nellore District into three shops as illegal, arbitrary, violative of principles of natural justice and contrary to the provisions of G.O.Ms.No.35, Consumer Affairs, Food and Civil Supplies (CS-1) Department, dated 17.09.2007 and also declare the consequential notification issued by the 2nd respondent in Rc.B.3686/2008, dated 01.12.2008, calling for the applications for grant of authorization insofar as serial Nos. 12 and 13 of the said notification i.e., FP shop Nos. 34-A and 34-B of Kaligiri as bad in law and set aside the same.”

2. Heard Sri V. Sudhakar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, and the learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies and perused the record.

3. The case of the petitioner is that he is the Secretary of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society, Kaligiri, Kaligiri Village and Mandal. The petitioner is the permanent Fair Price Shop Dealer of Shop No.34 of Kaligiri Villag