Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed therewith, the High Court may be pleased tomay be pleased to issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring he Proceedings Appeal Case No.CS.3/251/2021 dated respondent, confirming the and 07.02.2022 issued by the 2 Proceedings Rc.No.3090/2019 dated 19.08.2021 issued by the 3rd respondent in cancelling the Fair Price Shop Authorization of the petitioner in Shop No. 1323033, Isvi Village, Adoni Mandal, Kurnool District as illegal, improper, unjust arbitrary, colorable exercise of power considering the factual aspect that the petitioner, without following the procedure and contrary to Andhra Pradesh System without DistributionPublicTargetedState (Control) order, 2018 and further direct the respondents to permit the petitioner to distribute the essential commodities to the card holders and pass such

IA NO: 1 OF 2025 Petition under Section 151 CPC praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the petition, the High Court may be pleased may be pleased to stay the Proceedings Rc.No.3090/2019 dated 19.08.2021 issued by the 3rd respondent as well as the Proceedings Appeal Case No.CS.3/251/2021 dated 07.02.2022 issued by the 2nd respondent duly permitting the petitioner to run the Fair Price Shop No. No. 1323033, Isvi Village, Adoni Mandal, Kurnool District pending disposal of the writ petition and pass

IA NO: 1 OF 2026 Petition under Section 151 CPC praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the petition, the High Court may be pleased pleased to receive the counter copies on record by allowing the leave petition in the above writ petition and pass

The Court made the following:

ORDER

1. The writ petition has been filed questioning the orders passed in Appeal Case No.CS.3/251/2021, dated 07.02.2022 of respondent no.2-Collector (CS), Kurnool, confirming the orders passed by respondent no.3-The Revenue Divisional Officer, Adoni, in cancelling the Fair Price Shop authorization of the petitioner in respect of Shop No.1323033, Isvi Village, Adoni Mandal, Kurnool District.

2. The case of the petitioner, in brief, is that based on the report submitted by respondent no.4-Tahsildar alleging irregularities and variation in stock, the F.P.shop authorization of the petitioner was suspended vide proceedings in Rc.CS3/184/2019, dated 05.08.2019 and questioning the said suspension, the petitioner filed Writ Petition vide W.P.No.11594 of 2019, which was disposed of by this Court vide orders dated 05.03.2021 directing the respondent authorities to complete the disciplinary proceedings expeditiously further directing the respondent authorities to continue to supply essential commodities to the petitioner pending disciplinary proceedings. It is the further case of the petitioner that respondent no.3 cancelled the F.P.shop authorization of the petitioner vide proceedings Rc.No.3090/2019, dated 19.08.2021 and appeal preferred against the same was dismissed by respondent no.2 confirming the orders passed by respondent no.3. It is the further case of the petitioner that the explanation submitted by the petitioner was not considered, no personal hearing was provided and the procedure contemplated under the Andhra Pradesh State Targeted Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2018 (for short, ‘Control Orders,2018’) was not followed while cancelling the F.P.shop authorization and that the respondent no.2 did not consider the said aspects while deciding the appeal.

3. Heard Sri Mahadeva Kanthrigala, learned counsel for petitioner, and Sri Vineeth Appasani, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies.

4. Sri Mahadeva Kanthrigala, learned counsel for the petitioner, while reiterating the contents of the writ affidavit would contend that the explanation submitted by the petitioner was not considered an