ORDER 1. It appears that 350 bags of rice weighing 50 Kg. each were seized while being transported in a truck, pursuant to which Nawadah Muffasil P.S. Case No. 92/06 (G.R. No. 1166/06) was instituted under section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act on the allegation that on inspection no licence, permit or paper for possession for transporting rice was shown. The rice was bagged in Food Corporation of India marking and were machine stitching which raised a suspicion that the rice was meant for some Government scheme and was misappropriated. Pursuant to the seizure aforesaid, which was made on 2.9.2006 apparently a confiscation proceeding being Confiscation Case No. 95(L) of 2006 was initiated and is pending before the Collector, Nawadah since then. 2. Mr. N.K. Agrawal, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that so far as rice is concerned, it is a delicenced commodity with no price or movement restriction. Neither any paper nor any permit nor any license was required for its transportion. Bags of FCI marking were abundantly available to the farmers. In over one and half year no authority of FCI or any authority has been able to discover as to which of the scheme of the Government this rice belong. It is submitted that the rice being the foodgrain is a perishable commodity if permitted to be retained for long time. 3. In the facts and circumstances of the case, direct that 350 bags of rice, as seized aforesaid, be released in favour of the petitioner on proper verification and subject to security furnished to the satisfaction of C.J.M., Nawadah in the aforesaid case, subject to the result of the confiscation proceeding and the criminal case. The petitioner would co-operate both before the Criminal Court and in the confiscation proceeding, as aforesaid. 4. This finally disposes of the writ petition itself. 5. Let a copy of this order be communicated to the learned C.J.M., Nawadah at the cost of the petitioner.