( 1 ) IN all these petitions, the petitioners have sought for a direction to the respondent-Corporation to consider the applications for renewal of their licence to carry on business (hereinafter referred to as "the trade licence") and also to quash the endorsement given to each of the petitioners.

( 2 ) IT is the case of the petitioners that they have been carrying on business either in Restaurants or Pubs in the premises, which are the subject-matter of dispute in these petitions, for the last several years; and the respondents, without any justification, are refusing to renew their trade licences on the ground that the premises in question are situated in a cellar portion of the buildings.

( 3 ) SRI B. K. Sampath Kumar and Sri K. L. Manjunath, learned Counsel appearing for the petitioners, submitted that since the petitioners have been carrying on business in the premises in question for the last several years and the licences were granted to them to carry on business in the premises in question after inspection of the premises by the officers of the Corporation, it is not permissible for the respondents at this stage to refuse to renew the licences on the ground that the peti

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