1. M/s. Siddi Enterprises, a CL-9 Excise licence holder and other petitioners also seeking their renewal of Excise licences from the Respondent-Excise Department of the State of Karnataka having their liquor vending shops at Brigade Road and M.G. Road, and other urban roads in the city of Bengaluru, which fall on NH-4 & NH-7, have filed these writ petitions seeking a direction to the Respondent-State to consider their applications for renewal of Excise licences, which the Respondent-State has refused to do, in view of the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in State of Tamil Nadu vs. K.Balu decided on 15.12.2016 as the shops falling within the restricted limits of 500 metres from the edge of the State Highways or National Highways.

2. The following interim orders were passed in the present matters after hearing both the parties on 27.07.2017 and 03.08.2017:-

Order dated 27.07.2017:-

“Learned counsel for the Union of India has filed a memo in the Court today along with certain documents including the latest communication dated 25.07.2017 issued by the Ministry of Road Tr