1. In all these cases, the petitioners have challenged the order at Annexure ‘L’ dated 30.4.2011 whereby the health officer of Bruhath Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (‘BBMP’ for short) has cancelled their trade licence for carrying on the business at different places of the City of Bangalore.

2. The petitioners are the owners of restaurant/cafes situated at different parts of the City of Bangalore. It is contended that as a pat of their service for a long period of time, they offer to their customers ‘hookah’, an eastern smoking pipe designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through. The officials of the BBMP raided the premises of the petitioners serving hookah and seized hookah paraphernalia therefrom. The petitioners made a request to the respondents for the return of the seized hookah equipment. However, no favourable response from the respondents was received. Therefore, they filed writ petitions before this Court in W.P.Nos.15435 to 15445/2011 for a direction to the BBMP and its Officers refraining from interfering with their business except in accordance with law. On 21.4.2011, this Court passed an order permitting