JUDGMENT :

1. Learned AGP Mr.Sahil Trivedi has tendered affidavit-in-reply. The same is ordered to be taken on record.

2. Rule. Learned AGP waives service of notice of rule for the respondent-State.

3. In the present writ petition, the petitioner has challenged the action of the respondent authorities in refusing him to purchase a new weapon. The petitioner was holding 32 Bore Revolver Number C-6174M, which he purchased on 30.04.2017 from the Gujarat Banduk Bhandar, after obtaining requisite permission and license.

4. It is the case of the petitioner that while he was travelling from Ahmedabad to Jamnagar, he lost his weapon and accordingly, he informed the police officers that the bag containing licensed revolver was missing when he released the same on reaching his home. An application dated 10.12.2018 was given by the petitioner to Vejalpur Police Station, Juhapura, Ahmedabad in this regard. It is the case of the petitioner that some gang members of Anees Ibrahim were sent to murder him, if he in case failed to give a sum of Rs.10 Crores. Accordingly, the petitioner had also registered a compliant on 25.02.2017.

4.1. On 13.12.2018, the petitioner informed the Deputy Superintendent of