JUDGMENT - A.M. KHANWILKAR, J.:---Rule.

2. By consent rule returnable forthwith.

3. This writ petition, under Articles 226 and 227 of Constitution of India, takes exception to the order passed by the State Minister (Home), Government of Maharashtra dated 15-5-1999.

4. Briefly stated, the petitioner was running a hotel in the name and style of M/s. Satyam Lodging and Boarding at Satyam Industrial Estate No. 2, Pokharan No. 1, Thane for which he had obtained Eating Registration Certificate No. 42 of 1981 and Lodging Licence No. 77 of 1981. It is stated that on 5-3-1997 the local police forcibly entered the hotel rooms occupied by decent persons and booked 2 cases against them. According to the petitioner some of the persons were so humiliated that they did not contest the cases booked against them under sections 110 and 117 of the Bombay Police Act, 1951 and preferred to pay fine. It is further stated that certain cases filed against the employees/staff of the petitioner hotel under provisions of the Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act, 1956, are still pending.

5. Nevertheless, the Commissioner of Police, Thane by a show cause notice dated 2-5-1995 called upon the petitioner to explain

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