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.12105 of 2009 Between: 1 Mahajan Narsimulu S/o Bhoomaiah Metpally Proper and (M) Karimnagar District 2 Smt.Mahajan Bhulaxmi W/o.Narsimulu Metpally Proper and (M) Karimnagar District ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Joint Collector(CS) Karimnagar District,Karimnagar 2 The Assistant Supply Officer Jagtial Divsion Jagtial Karimnagar District 3 The Food Inspector Jagatial Karimnagar District 4 The Tahsikdar Metapally (M) Metpally,Karimnagar District .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.K.VENUMADHAV Counsel for the Respondents:AGP FOR CIVIL SUPPLIES The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to declare seizure of 1479 quintals of Godavari Scented paddy under panchanama, dated 05.06.2009. At the hearing, Sri K.Venumadhav, learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that in pursuance of the permission granted by the Office of the Commissioner of Civil Supplies, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad on 10.12.2008 in favour of M/s.Padmavathi Industries, Metpally, the rice was stored and that in the said proceedings, the Commissioner of Civil Supplies, Hyderabad, observed that there is no demand within the State for this scented varieties of raw rice (other than super fine varieties) and, therefore, there is no justification to direct sale of the seized stock before conclusion of the proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (for short ‘the Act’). Whether the permission granted to M/s.Padmavathi Industries, Metpally to transport 125 Metric Tons enures to the benefit of the petitioners and the seized stock was connected with the said Padmavathi Industries, Metpally are required to be considered and decided in proceedings under Section 6-A of the Act, which are stated to be pending before respondent No.1. Having taken into consideration the fact that the Commissioner of Civil Supplies, Hyderabad, in the above-mentioned proceedings himself observed that there is not much demand for the scented rice within the State, I deem it appropriate to direct respondent No.1 not to sell the seized stock as per his order, dated 05.06.2009 till completion of proceedings under Section 6-A of the Act. The writ petition is accordingly, disposed of with the direction to respondent No.1 to dispose of the proceedings under Section 6-A of the Act, within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.Nos.15621 and 15622 of 2009 filed by the petitioners for interim reliefs are disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 24th JUNE, 2009. Note: issue c.c. in three (3) days. kvni