P. A. CHOUDARY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner, under the name and style of M/s. Neelam Wines, desires to run a wine shop from a mulgi bearing Municipal No. 15-7-280 of Begum Bazar, Hyderabad. The proposed wine shop is only a place from where bottled liquor is to be sold. No liquor is to be consumed on the premises of the shop. For that purpose, the petitioner first obtained from the Excise Superintendent, Hyderabad District, an Excise Licence No. 39 dated 12-12-79 after paying a huge licence fee of Rs. 13,500. Next he had also obtained permission from the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad on 16-11-79 a "no Objection" declaration from the landlady of the premises.

( 2 ) ADDITIONALLY, on 25-1-80 he applied to the City Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad for grant of a licence under the Hyderabad City Police Act. That application was rejected by the City Police Commissioner through his Memo dated 24-7-80. The petitioner now challenges in this writ petition the legality of that refusal order made by the City Police Commissioner. As this Writ Petition is concerned with the validity of that Memo, it is necessary to set out the Memo in its entirety which reads thus:-- "you are hereby informed th

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