IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.12323 of 2009 Between: Bejugam Bhadraiah, S/o. Dasharatham, Proprietor of Chaithanya Traders & the Proprietor of Devi Kiranam also, R/o. Husnabad proper and Mandal, Karimnagar District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Joint Collector (CS), Karimnagar District, Karimnagar. 2 The Assistant Grains purchase Officer, Karimnagar. 3 The Tahsildar, Husnabad Mandal, Husnabad, Karimnagar District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.K.VENUMADHAV Counsel for the Respondents:AGP FOR CIVIL SUPPLIES The Court made the following : ORDER: In this writ petition, the petitioner questioned seizure of rice, other food grains, sugar and edible oil under panchanama, dated 06.06.2009. The said commodities were stated to have been seized from the premises of M/s.Devi Kiranam, Husnabad. The petitioner averred that though the said commodities were seized from M/s.Chaitanya Traders, it was falsely shown that the same were seized from M/s.Devi Kiranam. The petitioner further averred that he filed an application under Section 6-A(2) of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 before respondent No.1 for release of the seized commodities on 15.06.2009. The grievance of the petitioner is that even without disposing of the said application, respondent No.1 is seeking to order for sale of the seized commodities. Inasmuch as the petitioner’s application for release of the seized commodities is stated to be pending before respondent No.1, there is no justification for the latter to order for sale of the seized commodities without disposing of the said application. Therefore, without going into the merits of the claim of the petitioner, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent No.1 to dispose of application, dated 15.06.2009 filed by the petitioner for release of the seized commodities before seeking to proceed further. Till disposal of the said application, the seized commodities shall not be sold. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.15928 of 2009 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 24th JUNE, 2009. Note: issue c.c. in three (3) days. kvni