VEER PAL SINGH Vs. COMMISSIONER JHANSI DIVISION JHANSI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner applied for fire -arm licence for a rifle on 1 -7 -1998. Reports from Police and Revenue Departments were submitted before the District Magistrate recommending grant of licence. Since no orders were passed on the application of the petitioner.

(2.) HE filed Civil Misc. Writ No. 5841 of 2000 which was disposed of vide judgment dated 2 -2 -2000 directing the District Magistrate to decide the application of the petitioner for grant of fire -arm licence within a period of three months from the date of production of a certified copy of the order.

(3.) THE District Magistrate, in pursuance of the aforesaid reports, rejected the application of the petitioner by order dated 23 -4 -2000 on the ground that the petitioner was intimate with persons of criminal nature and he may oppress poor and weak persons who belong to socially backward class.