IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
JUDGMENT :
Vipul M. Pancholi, CJ.
Heard Mr. Mukesh Kumar Thakur, learned counsel for the appellant, Mr. S. Raza Ahmad, learned AAG-5 for the respondent Nos. 1 to 6 and Mr. Pankaj Kumar Sinha, learned counsel for the respondent No.7.
2. The present appeal has been filed under Clause-X, Appendix-E of the Patna High Court Rules against the order dated 13.03.2023 passed by learned Single Judge in C.W.J.C No. 7943 of 2022 whereby the learned Single Judge has allowed the writ petition filed by the present opponent no.7/original writ petitioner.
3. The factual matrix of the present case is as under :-
3.1. The present opponent no.7/original writ petitioner filed the captioned writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India in which the petitioner had prayed for quashing and setting aside the order dated 16.03.2022 passed by the Divisional Commissioner, Purnea in Supply Appeal No. 28 of 2019 whereby the Public Distribution System dealership license issued in favour of the petitioner came to be cancelled.
3.2. It is a case of the writ petitioner that she applied for grant of fair price shop dealership licence for Gangeli Gram Panchayat under Bihar Targetted Public Distribution System
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