Manju Devi v. The State Of Bihar And ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.309 of 2017 ====================================================== Manju Devi W/o Shankar Choudhary Resident of Village - Baro, P.S. - Fulwaria, District - Begusarai.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State Of Bihar through the Secretary, Food and Civil Supply Department, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna 2.

The S.D.O., Teghra, Begusarai.

... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Binod Kumar, Adv.

For the Respondent/s :

Smt.Namrata Mishra-Ga6 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV PRAKASH SHARMA ORAL ORDER 18-03-2023

1. The petitioner challenged the order dated 07.02.2015 (Annexure- 3), passed by respondent no. 2, namely the S.D.O, Teghra, in Memo No. 1456, whereby his licence for PDS dealership was cancelled.

2. Without filing the appeal, the petitioner has preferred this writ petition and the same has been pending for almost 7 years.

3. This Court finds that the P.D.S. dealership licence of the petitioner was cancelled in the year 2015 and more than 8 years have passed by. In lieu thereof, at this stage, it would not be appropriate to examine the matter and by efflux of time, the present writ petition has rendered infructuous and no relief of renewing/restoring of licence can be granted to him after 8 years

Patna High Court CWJC No.309 of 2017(3) dt.18-03-2023 2/2 of cancellation of licence. However, it is made clear that the petitioner shall be always eligible to apply again for the PDS dealership, if she so chooses.

4. As such, with the above observations, the present writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous by efflux of time with aforesaid liberty to the petitioner. (Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J) Pravinkumar/- Item No. 13 U