THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION NOS.14835 AND 17904 OF 2002 Date of Order:10.02.2011 Between: G.Sambaiah and another ..Petitioners and Mandal Revenue Officer, Mulug, Warrangal and another ..Respondents The Court made the following Order: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION NOS.14835 AND 17904 OF 2002 COMMON ORDER: These writ petitions are filed for issuing a writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in seizing the lorries of the petitioners bearing Nos.AP 13T 691 and AP 36T 8484 while transporting the rice and also seizing the rice stock carried in the lorries, on 12.07.2002, as arbitrary a.nd illegal. This Court while admitting the writ petition granted interim direction to release the lorries in WP.MP.No.189554 of 2002 in W.P.No.4835 of 2002 on 14.08.2002 observing that the seizure of the stocks as well as the vehicles was affected by the police and no provision of law which is said to have been contravened by the petitioners have been cited in the panchanama. It is stated that the lorries have since been made over to the Mandal Revenue Officer and even he did not pass any order so far. In view of the same, there shall be a direction to the respondents to release the lorries bearing Nos.AP 13T 691 and AP 36T 8484 to the petitioners in case no proceedings are initiated against the same under Section 6(A) of the Essential Commodities Act. Similarly, an interim direction was also granted on 18.09.2002 in WP.MP.No.22482 of 2002 in W.P.No.17904 of 2002 directing releasing of the rice in favour of the petitioners. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and also the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents. It is now represented that no proceedings are initiated for violation of the control orders by the lorry owners or the owners of the rice stock which was transported in the above said lorries in the writ petition so far and further the lorries and stocks were also released in favour of the writ petitioners and hence, no further cause survives in these writ petitions. Having regard to the fact that no proceedings under Section 6(A) of the Essential Commodities Act have been initiated either against the lorry owners or against the owners of the rice stock so far, which were already been released, the writ petitions are disposed of in terms of the interim orders as referred to above. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J February 10, 2011 Lmv