IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 18838 of 2009 Between: Sri Nethi Bala Veeraiah . .Petitioner And The Joint Collector, Medak District at Sanga Reddy and another .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.18838 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition with the following prayer: “For the reasons stated in the accompanying affidavit it is prayed that this Honourable Court may be pleased to issue a writ or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus to declare the Panchanama dated 28.07.2009 for seizure of various stocks worth Rs.3,45,000/- is illegal, improper, arbitrary and consequently direct the respondents to release the seized stocks of Dalls in favour of the petitioner.” 2) Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Civil Suppies. 3) Pursuant to the seizure dated 28.07.2009, a report was made to the 1st respondent-Joint Collector, who in turn initiated proceedings under Section 6-A of Essential Commodities Act and also passed an order for disposal of the seized stocks. 4) Now, that the proceedings have been initiated under Section 6-A of Essential Commodities Act, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to the 1st respondent to complete the proceedings initiated under Section 6-A of Essential Commodities Act at the earliest, preferably within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In the meanwhile, the stocks seized on 28.07.2009 shall not be sold. 5) With the above directions, this writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J September 10, 2009 KSH