IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2445 of 2011 NARESH KUMAR SINGH . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS . ----------- 2. 25.02.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner seeks release of his Tractor No. B.R.M. 7846, seized in the forest area on 6.1.2009. A confiscation Case No. 3 of 2009 is stated to be pending in which it is submitted that the petitioner has also filed an application for release of the vehicle. Learned counsel submits that neither is the confiscation proceeding being disposed nor his application for release of the vehicle is being considered. There is no occasion for the Court to usurp the power of the confiscation authority at this stage and to direct release of the vehicle in the pending confiscation proceeding without first requiring his pending application for release of the vehicle to be disposed off in accordance with law whereafter the question of judicial review may or may not arise. The application is disposed off with the direction to consider and decide the confiscation proceeding with utmost expeditiousness. Pending disposal of the confiscation proceedings, if there is an application pending 2 for release of the vehicle, or, if the petitioner files any such application, let the same be considered and disposed off expeditiously preferably within a maximum period of four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order in view of the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court in more than one case with regard to the release of vehicles is concerned including forest cases. The writ application stands disposed. P. Kumar ( Navin Sinha, J.)