THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition No.23132 of 2011 Dated 17th August, 2011 Between: Santa Jutur Labour Contract Cooperative …Petitioner And The Divisional Forest Officer (Wild Life), Nandyal, Kurnool District and another …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Sri P.Nagendra Reddy Counsel for respondents: AGP for Forests The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in detaining mini lorry bearing registration No.AP 21 TT 6104, along with tatties (finished bamboo products) manufactured by the members of the petitioner-Society as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner sought for a consequential direction to the respondents to release the said lorry along with the tatties. I have heard Sri P.Nagendra Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Forest appearing for the respondents. The petitioner is a Labour Contract Cooperative Society, which is involved in manufacturing the products with bamboos. When the tatties made out of the bamboos were allegedly being transported through the above-mentioned lorry, the respondents stopped them and detained the same along with the finished bamboo products on 12.08.2011. When the petitioner approached respondent No.2 with a request to release the seized lorry, he has not passed any orders. Therefore, it is constrained to file this writ petition. At the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that a Division Bench of this Court in W.A.No.634 of 1989 took the view that seizure and detention of finished bamboo products is not sustainable in law. The learned counsel further submitted that in the petitioner’s own case, this Court by order, dated 27.12.2004, in W.P.No.24134 of 2004, directed release of the finished bamboo products following the judgment in W.A.No.634 of 1989. After hearing the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Forest, I am of the opinion that continuous detention of the lorry along with the finished bamboo products pending enquiry, if any, would cause serious hardship to the petitioner’s interests as a Division Bench of this Court has already held that the finished bamboo products cannot be detained. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents to immediately release the above-mentioned lorry to their lawful owners, subject to their filing an undertaking that the lorry will not be alienated or its physical condition is altered in any manner till completion of the enquiry. It is made clear that the petitioner shall abide by the final order that may be passed after completion of the enquiry by the respondents. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.28305 of 2011 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 17th August, 2011 VGB