Authority told to decide on seed shop owner’s plea within 30 days
| Date :14-Oct-2019 |
Legal Correspondent :
In the matter related to the petitioner challenging the order of suspension of his shop’s license as a dealer in seeds, the single bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, comprising of Justice Atul Sreedharan, has directed the appropriate authority to decide the appeal filed by the petitioner within a period of 30 days. The single bench heard the petition filed by Nayab Dastdgir, Operating Partner of Vindhya Agrocare, Bhopal. Advocate Sourabh Sharma, counsel for the petitioner, mentioned in the petition that the petitioner has sought direction to respondent Joint Director, Farmers’ Welfare and Agriculture, Bhopal district, to decide the petitioner’s pending statutory appeal even through FIR has also registered in strength of respondent Deputy Director, Farmer Welfare and Agriculture, written report so that 3/7 of the EC Act FIR has lodged against the petitioner and immediately the order without providing opportunity.
The petitioner has a license as a dealer in seeds which were taken from his shop and were subjected to laboratory test. In the laboratory test, the seeds were found to be of low quality standard. Therefore, in exercise of powers conferred by rule 15 of the Seeds (Control) Order, 1983, his license was suspended. Against the order of suspension, the petitioner had filed an appeal that too was pending. Hence, this writ petition was disposed off.
During the hearing, counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petition was filed by the petitioner herein with a prayer to get his statutory appeal decided expeditiously, which was pending before the appellate authority. He says that the same was filed in the month of July 2019. Under the circumstances, this petition was disposed of with a request to the appropriate authority to decide the appeal filed by the petitioner within a period of 30 days from the date on which the certified copy of this order was placed before it. It was made clear that this court had not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case. With the above, the petition was finally disposed off, the single bench said.