HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WRIT PETITION (C) N0.1723/2009 PETITIONER RESPONDENTS 1 M/s. Cholamandalam DBS Finance Ltd, through Assistant Manager Legal - VF Registered Office at Dare House, No.2, N.S.C. Bose Road, Parrys, Chennai. Branch Office : Cholamandalam DBS Finance Limited, Shri Ram Heights, Opp. Gandhi Udhyan, Saheed Bhagat Singh Chowk, Shankar Nagar, Raipur (C.G). Vs. State of Chhattisgarh, Through Secretary, Department of Forest, D.K.S. Building, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Conservator of Forest, Durg Circie, District Durg (C.G). Authorized Officer cum Sub- Divisional Forest Officer, Ambagarh Chowki, Forest Division Rajnandgaon, District Rajnandgaon (CG). Shri Hitesh Kumar Sahu, s/o Shri Pyare Lal Sahu, R/o Village Pumrileva, Post Atargaon, Dongargaon, Distt. Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226 & 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA Appearance: ./" Shri Alok Deweangan, counsel for the petitioner. Shri Shashank Thakur, Panel Lawyer for the State/ respondents 1 to 3, on advance copy. ff•'lliBll.ir ,/"" W.PCONo. 1723/2009 ORAL ORDER (02.04.2009) SUNIL KUMAR SINHA, J. Heard. The petitioner has filed this petition for issuance of direction to respondent no.3 to decide the application of the Petitioner Company within the stipulated time which has been filed for releasing the Vehicle Tata D.1. 207 bearing Regn. No.C.G. 04 G 6486 on Suprudnama during the pendency of the confiscation proceedings. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the said vehicle was seized by the concerned authority in connection with a forest crime and the proceedings for confiscation is pending before respondent no.3. During the pendency of the confiscation proceedings, the petitioner filed an application for releasing the vehicle on Suprudnama, but the said application has not been disposed of sb far, therefore, necessary directions be issued in this regard. Shri Shashank Thakur, counsel for the State has no objection in directing respondent no.3 to dispose of the application for releasing the said vehicle on Suprudnama at an early date. Accordingly, the writ petition is finally disposed ofwith a direction to respondent no.3 to decide the application for releasing the vehicle on Suprudiama filed by the petitioner, as early as possible, preferably within a period of one month from the date of production of certified copy of this order before the said authority. With the above observations/direction, this writ petition stands finally disposed of. No order as to costs. Sd/- Sunil Kumar Sinha Judge '<r-/