IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 17659 of 2009 Between: 1 Ladde Rajaiah, S/o Buchaiah, 60 years, Occ:Agriculture, R/o Shanigaram (v), Kamanpur Mandal, Karimnagar District and another ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Joint Collector (CS), Karimnagar District and 2 others. .....RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.17659 of 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the 3rd respondent in seizing the Van bearing No. AP 15 Y 7022 of the 2nd petitioner along with 95 quintals of BPT Samba Masoori paddy of the 1st petitioner, under a cover of panchanama dated 21.08.2009 even though the 1st petitioner is a farmer and no such control order is applicable, as illegal and arbitrary and consequently sought for a direction to the respondents to release the said stock in favour of the 1st petitioner and the Van in favour of the 2nd petitioner and not to sell the seized stock through public auction. The 1st petitioner is an agriculturist and he raised BPT Samba Masoori fine variety paddy in his land. When the said paddy was being transported to Godavarikhani for its sale in the 2nd petitioner Van bearing No. AP 15 Y 7022, on 21.08.2009, the 3rd respondent seized the said Van along with paddy on the ground that the petitioners were not having required permission to transport the same. Pursuant thereto, on the basis of the report furnished by the 3rd respondent, the 1st respondent initiated proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act. 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. However, the Van bearing No. AP 15 Y 7022 shall be released in favour of the 2nd petitioner on her furnishing landed property security, which is equivalent to the value of the seized commodity, to the satisfaction of the 1st respondent. No order as to costs. ________________________ (GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J) 24-08-2009 Gsn.