DEBABRATA MOOKERJEE, J.

( 1 ) THIS appeal is brought from a decision of G. K. Mitter J. , making absolute a Rule for Mandamus whereby two orders of the Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, dated March 1 and March 11, 1960, refusing to grant licence to the respondent Lakshmi Chand Gupta to run an eating house, known as Lakshmi Hotel or Shri Lakshmi Hotel, were directed to be withdawn or cancelled and the Police Commissioner ordered to renew licences in favour of the respondent, authorising him to run the Hotel for the years 1959-60 and 1960-61.

( 2 ) THE respondent had rented the first floor of premises No. 170/2d, Lower Circular Road, Calcutta, in the year 1958 and obtained in the course of the year a licence under the Calcutta Police Act, 1866, to run a boarding and eating house. The licence was due to expire, on March 31, 1959. Before its expiry, the respondent applied for renewal on the 25th of March 1959, for the year 1959-60. On May 16, he received a communication from the Commissioner of Police that it had been brought to his notice that on several occasions women of questionable character visited the hotel and liquor supplied to customers. This, it was said, involved infringe

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