WP/2708/2025 of SRI RAMAIAH SETTY RAGHUNATHA SETTY Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH :: AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT the honourable smt justice kiranmayee mandava WRIT PETITION NO: 2708 OF 2025 Between: Sri Ramaiah Setty Raghunatha Setty, S/o. Ramaiah aged about 58 years Proprietor of PRS Agro Tech, Plot No.02, Industrial i Estate, Soregowdanakote Village, Bangarupeta Kolar District, Karnataka State. ...PETITIONER AND 1. The State of Andhra Pradesh Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Civil Supplies Department, Secretariat Buildings, Velagapudi , Amaravathi, Guntur District. 2. The Joint Collector, Kadapa, YSR District. 3. The Tahsildar, Sidhout, Sidhout Mandal, YSR District. ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is filed praying that in the circumstances stated i in the affidavit filed therewith, the High Court may be pleased to i issue an appropriate writ order or direction more particulary one in the nature of WRIT OF MANDAMUS directing the respondents to return the confiscation of the- stocks i.e., 23475 kgs of rice in ref. No. CS(1)/367/2021, dated 15.02.2022 to the petitioner as illegal. improper arbitrary and