RAM NAYAN VERMA Vs. COMMISSIONER FAIZABAD REGION FAIZABAD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) WRIT petition is directed against the order dated 12.8.2005 passed by District Magistrate, Ambedkar Nagar cancelling firearm licence of petitioner and the appellate order dated 16.6.2008 confirming the said order in appeal.

(2.) LEARNED counsel for petitioner submitted that three criminal cases, which are foundation of passing the impugned order, were initiated by one Station In -charge who was posted in 2005 in the concerned area and those proceedings were all malicious. Prior to posting of Hari Prasad Yadav and after his transfer, no criminal case has ever been registered against petitioner and it shows that the impugned order has been passed on account of malicious proceedings initiated against petitioner by Hari Prasad Yadav.

(3.) IN State of Bihar Vs. P.P. Sharma, : 1992 Supp (1) SCC 222 in para 55 of the judgment, the Apex Court held: -