IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 18242 of 2009 Between: Pebba Srinivas, S/o. Krishnamurthy, 33 years, Occ: Agriculture, R/o Otai village, Kothaguda Mandal, Warangal District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Joint Collector (CS), Warangal, Warangal District and 2 others. .....RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.18242 of 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the 2nd respondent in seizing the stocks i.e., 27.50 quintals of rice; 16.50 quintals of broken rice and 14.95 quintals of paddy from the house of the petitioner and also to declare the order dated 20.08.2009 in ECAC No.88/2009 issued by the 1st respondent whereby directing the 3rd respondent to sell the aforesaid rice at the rate of Rs.20/- per Kg., and the other commodities by way of public auction, as illegal and arbitrary and consequently sought for a direction to the respondents to release the said seized stock in favour of the petitioner. The petitioner is having agricultural lands and he raised paddy crop in his lands and the paddy produced by him was stored in his house. On 20.07.2009, the 2nd respondent herein visited the house of the petitioner and seized the said stock on the ground that he was doing business contrary to the provisions of the A.P. Schedule Commodities Dealers (L.S. & R), 2008. Pursuant thereto, on the basis of the report furnished by the 2nd respondent, the 1st respondent initiated proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act and directed the 3rd respondent to sell the seized stocks and remit the sale proceeds into the Government account. Hence the present writ petition. Heard both sides. Now that the proceedings under Section 6A of the Essential Commodities Act are very much pending before the 1st respondent, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of without going into the merits of the case. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the 1st respondent-Joint Collector to complete the proceedings pending before him under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act 1955 and pass necessary orders thereon, within a period of eight weeks from today. Pending consideration of the said proceedings, the seized stock shall not be sold. No order as to costs. _________________________ (GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J) 28-08-2009 Gsn.