ORDER:

This Writ Petition is filed seeking to declare the action of the respondents in not returning / refunding the license renewal fee about Rs. 47,91,780/-, to the petitioner collected for renewal of Form-2B license for the year 2015-17, wherein no business took place, as illegal, arbitrary, violative of Rule 10 of the Andhra Pradesh Excise (Grant of License of Selling by Bar and Conditions of License) Rules, 2005 (for short “the Rules”), apart from violation of Articles 14, 19 (1)(g) of the Constitution of India and for consequential direction to refund the said amount.

2) The brief facts of the case as set out in the affidavit filed in support of the Writ Petition may be stated thus:

3) The petitioner obtained a Form 2B license for the year

2006-2007 in the name and style of S.V. Restaurant and Bar, and the same was extended on yearly basis upto the Excise year 2013-14. The request of the petitioner for renewal of the Form 2B license for the year 2014-15 by paying the necessary license fee of Rs.19,00,000/- was not considered as the area / locality where the petitioner’s store/outlet located was notified as prohibitory area through proceedings dated 26.03.2014 of the 5th responde