IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13958 of 2009 Between: Smt. Kinthali Parvathamma, W/o. Venkata Ramana, Sri Gowri Enterprises, KRM Colony, Maddilapalem, Visakhapatnam City, Visakhapatnam District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Joint Collector, Visakhapatnam District. 2 The Assistant Supply Officer, Circle -II Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.B.DEVANAND Counsel for the Respondents:GP FOR CIVIL SUPPLIES The Court made the following : ORDER: In this writ petition, the petitioner questioned the validity of seizure of 130.25 quintals of rice under mediators’ report, dated 30.06.2009, by respondent No.2, as illegal and arbitrary. Heard Sri B.Devanand, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies appearing for the respondents. The petitioner is a food grains dealer. Her business premises were inspected by the staff of Civil Supplies, Vigilance and Task Force Police Departments on 30.06.2009. At the inspection, the petitioner failed to produce license and stock register but produced only bill book. Therefore, 130.25 quintals of various varieties of rice was seized and proceedings under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 have been initiated. The petitioner filed application, dated 10.07.2009 before respondent No.1 for release of the seized stock, but so far, no orders have been passed thereon. Though the petitioner claimed the relief of invalidation of seizure, at the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the grievance of the petitioner is confined to the non-disposal of her application by respondent No.1 for release of the seized stock. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent No.1 to consider and dispose of petitioner’s application, dated 10.07.2009 said to have been filed before him, before deciding on the future course of action regarding disposal of the seized stock. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.18274 of 2009 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 14th JULY, 2009. kvni