JAYASANKARAN NAMBIAR, J.

This Writ Petition, styled in the nature of a Public Interest

Litigation, is preferred by a social worker who came to know from

newspaper reports that the State Government had decided to grant

licenses/permissions for establishing distilleries and breweries across

Kerala, and that the said decision was subsequently withdrawn by the

State Government. In the Writ Petition, the prayer is essentially for a

declaration that the issuance of the various Government orders issued in

connection with the proposal for grant of license, as also the withdrawal

of the said proposal, are illegal in as much as they amount to an abuse

of the power of the Government to grant the privilege of establishing

breweries and distilleries. It is also the case of the petitioner in the Writ

Petition that in any future consideration for grant of the privilege, the

State Government should adopt and publicize a transparent policy for

considering all future applications for breweries and distilleries licenses.

2. When the matter came up for admission, the learned

Government Pleader produced for our perusal a Government Order,

dated 9.10.2018 which indicates that the State Governm