IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY THURSDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND NINE ONLY WRIT PETITION No.10194 of 2009 Between: M/s. Sri Satyanarayana General Stores, Gopalapuram Village & Mandal, West Godavari District. … Petitioner And The Joint Collector, West Godavari District, Eluru & others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri Balaji Medamalli Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Civil Supplies This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.10194 of 2009 ORDER:- This writ petition is filed questioning proceedings dated 26.03.2009 of respondent No.1 under which 142.80 quintals of rice, 3175 kgs of Edible oil and 13.10 quintals of pulses were seized from the petitioner’s business premises. This Court, by order dated 20.05.2009, granted stay of sale of the seized stock. Since the proceedings under Section 6A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (for short, ‘the Act’) are pending, I deem it appropriate to direct respondent No.1 to dispose of the said proceedings. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of without going into the merits of the case and the contentions raised by the petitioner with the direction to respondent No.1 to complete the proceedings pending before him under Section 6A of the Act, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Pending disposal of the proceedings, the seized stock shall not be sold. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, WPMP.No.13151 of 2009 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. _____________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 18.06.2009 ES