Kesh Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar And ORS
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.18070 of 2015 ====================================================== Kesh Ranjan Kumar S/o late Bachhu Nandan Sharam Resident of VillageShamsher Nagar p.s Daud Nagar District Aurangabad, Bihar. .... .... Petitioner
Versus
1. The State of Bihar through the Chief Seceretary, Govt. of Bihar , Patna.
2. The Divisional Commissioner, Magadh ,Govt. of Bihar,.
3. The District Magistrate, Aurangabad, Bihar.
4. The Superintendent of Police, Aurangabad, Bihar.
5. The District Arms Officer, Aurangabad, Bihar.
6. The Station House officer, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, Bihar. .... .... Respondents ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner : Mr. Praveen Kumar, Advocate For the State Mr. Utsav Kumar, AC to GA 11 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE DR. JUSTICE RAVI RANJAN ORAL ORDER 30-11-2015 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner seeks direction to the District Magistrate-cumLicensing Authority, Patna, to take a decision upon the application filed by him for grant of firearm licence for DBBL gun. It is contended that after the death of his father, the concerned gun has been kept with the Arms Dealer and the petitioner applied for grant of firearm licence so that the gun of his father could be retained by him, however, the application for grant of arms licence filed in the year 2003 itself, the District Magistrate-cum-Licensing Authority is yet to take a final decision. Accordingly, this writ application is disposed of with a direction to the licensing authority to take a decision in the case of
Patna High Court CWJC No.18070 of 2015 (2) dt.30-11-2015 the petitioner in accordance with law within a period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, if the said decision has not been taken and while taking such decision, the licensing authority would be obliged to consider the Family Heirloom Policy as well as the decision of this Court rendered in Manish Kumar v. State of Bihar and other analogous cases (2015(4) Patna Law Journal Reports 212). (Dr. Ravi Ranjan, J) SC/- U