BHUPENDRA SINGH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner has chosen to file the present writ petition challenging the order dated 14.9.2007 passed by respondent No. 2 nearly after the lapse of 16 months Without assigning any plausible reasons whatsoever for the inordinate delay in filing the present writ petition.

(2.) PETITIONER's fire-arm licence was cancelled vide order dated 9.8.2007 against which an appeal was preferred on 3.9.2007 and the respondent No. 3 while admitting the appeal refused the prayer for staying the order dated 9.8.2007 cancelling the fire-arm licence of the petitioner.

(3.) IT is admitted to the petitioner that the appeal against the order dated 14.9.2007 cancelling the licence of his fire-arm is pending before the respondent No. 2 since 2007 and till date no final order has been passed. Despite the impugned order dated 14.9.2007, passed around 16 months back, the petitioner did not show any sense of urgency in challenging the said order. There was no justification r the petitioner to have waited for such a long time. As noticed earlier the appeal already pending before the respondent No. 3 for final adjudication, therefore, I do not see any reason to interfere in the matter after such a long delay.