THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WP NO.24251 OF 2008 ORDER: The petitioner claims to be the firm dealing in the business of selling and storing of rice. It claims that an application dated 31.10.2008 was submitted for the purpose of obtaining licence to run the said business and completed all the formalities required for obtaining the said licence. However, on the same day i.e., 31.10.2008, the Tahsildar, Jammikunta Village and Mandal, Karimnagar District-2nd respondent herein inspected the shop and seized 60 quintals of different varieties of rice on the ground that the petitioner is running the business without obtaining Food Grain Licence. Since running the business without obtaining a licence is a contravention under AP Scheduled Commodities Dealers (Licensing, Storage and Regulation) Order, 2008, proceedings were initiated under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (for shot ‘the Act’) and the said proceedings are still pending. Since the stock has been seized, the petitioner has filed the writ petition for a direction declaring the seizure as illegal and arbitrary and consequently to direct the respondents not to sell the seized stock unless and until the enquiry under Section 6-A is completed. The matter has come up at the interlocutory stage. On the consent of learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader, this matter is being disposed of at this stage. According to the counter filed by the respondents, the application of the petitioner is said to have been filed on 31.10.2008 at about 3.30 P.M, whereas the premises were inspected at 1.30 P.M. Therefore, the petitioner was conducting the business without obtaining the licence which is violoative of the aforesaid control order. This Court while admitting the writ petition by orders dated 6.11.2008 directed that the enquiry under Section 6-A of the Act shall go on but, however, directed that all the seized stock shall not be sold. In the circumstances and in the interest of justice while maintaining the said interlocutory order, I deem it appropriate to direct that the 1st respondent herein to complete the enquiry and dispose of the matter as early as possible, preferably, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The interim order granted by this Court referred to above shall continue pending disposal of the said proceedings. The writ petition is disposed of as above. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________ NOUSHAD ALI,J rkk Dated: 29-10-2010