PATNA, India, Sept. 10 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Aug. 12;

1. The writ petition is filed for the following reliefs:-

"(i) For issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing and commanding the respondents to issue new licence of fair price shop under Public Distribution System on the vacant seat of Masaurha Panchayat under Nardiganj Block of the district of Nawada for which the petitioner has applied in pursuance of advertisement No. 01/2017 issued by the SubDivisional Office, Nawada and also appeared in canceling, the petitioner has fulfilled all the criteria laid down under "Bihar Targeted Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2016", but the respondents have adopted pick and choose policy on irrelevant ground against the provision contained in Bihar Targeted Public Distribution (Control) Order, 2016 and selected Abhay Shankar, who applied on the basis of resident of Masaurha Panchayat but in fact he is resident of district Gaya and another selected candidate namely, Ajay Kumar, who also applied on the basis of resident of Masaurha Panchayat but in fact he is originally resident of District Nalanda.

(ii) Further for issuance of writ in the nature of certiorari quashing the selection of Abhay Shankar (respondent No. 6) and Ajay Kumar (respondent No. 7) who have been selected for issue new licence of fair price shop under Public Distribution System on the vacant seat of Masaurha Panchayat in pursuance of advertisement No.

01/2017 on irrelevant ground and against the provision contained in Bihar Targeted Public Distribution (Control) Order, 2016 because both are not the resident of said Panchayat, secondly there are 02 vacant seats under Masaurha Panchayat in which one reserved for Schedule Caste (SC) and another is General seat rather both applied on SC category.

(iii) For issuance of any other writ/writs/relief/reliefs for which the petitioner found entitled in the fact and circumstances of this case."

2. At this juncture, the Learned counsel for the respondents contended that Section 32(iii) of the Bihar Targeted Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2016 provides for the provision of appeal and Section 32(vi) of the Bihar Targeted Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2016 provides for the provision of revision.

Section 32(iii) 32(v) and 32(vi) read as follows:

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