COMMON ORDER:

Y. Lakshmana Rao, J.

The revisions (12) twelve in number have been preferred under Sections 397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘the Cr.P.C .,’) challenging the orders passed by the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Kurnool whereby and whereunder the orders of the confiscation passed by the learned District Collector and District Magistrate, Kurnool, under Section 6-A of the Essential Commodities Act, 1951 (for short ‘the E.C. Act.’) are confirmed. 10% of the excess stock of paddy stored in M/s. Kothapalli Farmers Ware House, Kothapalli Metta Village was confiscated while releasing 90% of the excess stock of paddy to the farmers with a direction to them to dispose the same in the open market within one week from the date of receipt of the order.

2. All the revisions have arisen out of the same or similar causes of action, therefore, they are heard and decided by this common order.

3. Briefly stated, the Deputy Tahsildar, Nandyal, Kurnool District, on receipt of credible information that some of the Benami traders of the surrounding areas of Nandyal were hoarding huge stocks of paddy at Kothapalli Farmers Warehouse, Kothapalli Metta Village, Nand