THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.819 of 2011 Date : 24-1-2011 Between : Puppala Srinivasa Rao .. Petitioner And District Supply Officer, Collectorate compound, Guntur District and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri Nandigam Krishna Rao Counsel for respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the seizure of paddy and closure of rice mill of the petitioner as illegal and arbitrary. At the hearing Sri Nandigam Krishna Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted on the basis of the pleadings raised in the affidavit that though the petitioner’s rice mill was inspected and the stocks available therein were seized on the suspicion that his client has purchased rice belonging to public distribution system from fair price shop No.9, the mediators’ report dated 7-1-2011 evincing seizure, does not contain any allegation that such rice was found in the petitioner’s mill. On a perusal of the mediators’ report, prima facie I find force in this submission of the learned counsel. However, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Supplies, on instructions, stated that proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act 1955 have already been initiated and that the petitioner has made his application for release of the seized stocks. Inasmuch as the petitioner’s application is pending before the Collector, Civil Supplies, Guntur, it is appropriate that the said application is disposed of keeping in view the above noted plea raised by the petitioner and the prima facie finding rendered by this court herein above. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to the Collector, Civil Supplies, to dispose of the petitioner’s application for release of the seized stocks in accordance with law within a period of one week from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. __________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY.,J Date: 24-1-2011 Note : Furnish copy in (3) days AM