JUDGMENT :

This writ petition is filed seeking the following reliefs.

(i) Issue a writ of certiorari or other appropriate writ, order or direction calling for the records leading to Ext.P7 and quash the same.

(ii) Issue a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ, order or direction, directing the 2nd respondent to re-consider Ext.P1 application for quarrying permit submitted by the petitioner, de hors Exhibit P2, and pass orders thereon, as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within a period of 2 weeks.

2. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Senior Government Pleader.

3. It is submitted by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner that the petitioner's application to grant quarrying permit had been rejected by the 2nd respondent by Ext.P7 order citing that it does not satisfy the distance criteria prescribed in Exhibit P2 order issued by the National Green Tribunal. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the Exhibit P2 order of the National Green Tribunal has been set aside in Exhibit P9 judgment, and that the application, therefore, is liable to be considered independently. It is further stated in Exhibit P7 order