( 1 ) THESE two petitions are directed against the orders passed by the district and Sessions Judge, West godavarl at Eluru before whom appeals were preferred under Section 6-C of the essential Commodities Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act) making over criminal Appeal Nos. 65/1974 and 84/ 1974 from his file to the file of the additional Sessions judge, Eluru.

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the petitioner, the learned Additional Sessions Judge Is not competent to hear and dispose of the appeals under Section 6-C of the Act, he, therefore, requests this Court to retransfer the appeals to the file of the district and Sessions, Judge, Eluru from the file of the Additional Sessions judge.

( 3 ) THE question whether the additional Sessions judge is competent to hear and dispose of the appeals under section 6-C of the Act was decided by our learned brother Chlnnappa Reddy, J,. in L. Ramayya vs. State of Andhra Pradesh (I) 1972-1 An. W. R. 118. The learned judge held that whether the District and Sessions Judge acts as a Court or persona deslgnata, the Additional Sessions judge Is Incompetent to hear an appeal preferred to the District and Sessions judge under Section 6-C of the Act