JOYDEV SEN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE writ petitioner complains of an order passed by the Additional Collector, Hooghly on May 28, 2007 granting a stamp vendor's license in favour of the private respondent.

(2.) THE private respondent is the sister of the petitioner. THE warring parties' father was a licensed stamp vendor and had initially requested the authorities to transfer the licence in the name of the petitioner. Upon the petitioner being offered the licence, the petitioner refused to accept the same. THE petitioner's father thereafter required the licence to be transferred in the name of the private respondent. THE representation was considered by the Additional Collector, Hooghly and by an order of May 28, 2007 such official found that there was no provision under the guidelines of the Finance (Taxation) Department, Government of West Bengal bearing No. 2894 (17) F.T. dated August 22, 1997 to transfer a licence in such manner.

(3.) THE Additional Collector held in the order impugned in the present proceedings that in view of certain other instances where transfer of the licence had been permitted, it was not impermissible to transfer the licence in favour of the private respondent.