KRISHNA RAJ SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ petition has been filed for quashing the impugned order dated 4-5-93 (Annexure 7 to the writ petition.

(2.) I have heard the petitioner in person.

(3.) I have held in Ganesh Chandra Bhatt v. D.M. Almorah, AIR 1993 Alld. 291 that it is wholly arbitrary to grant arm licence only for particular district. In para 77 of the said judgment I have held a person needs protection wherever he goes, and it is not that once he goes out of his district he is safe. Hence I have held that a licence should be normally not be restricted to the district or State except for special reasons to be recorded in writing and communicated to the applicant (vide para 81 of the said judgment). A division bench of this Court in Writ Petition No. 29963 of 1993, Devendra Pratap v. D.M. and others decided on 20-10-93 has affirmed the aforesaid judgment. In this case there is no special reasons for which the licence has been granted for Allahabad district only. Hence in the circumstances of the case I set aside the impugned order dated 4-5-93 and I direct that the petitioner's arm licence should be rectified by the respondent no. 4 and made applicable for whole of India, The necessary corrections in the arm licence of the petitioner should be made within two weeks by the appropriate authority.