JUDGMENT :

Sudhanshu Dhulia, J.

The matter is taken up today through video conferencing.

2. Heard Mr. B. Kaushik, learned counsel for the appellant. Also heard Mr. P.N. Goswami, learned Additional Advocate General, Assam for the respondents.

3. This writ appeal has been filed by the appellant challenging the order of the learned Single Judge dated 22.02.2021 passed in a bunch of writ petitions, whereby the prayers made in the writ petitions did not find favour with the learned Single Judge and the writ petitions were dismissed.

4. The present appellant Smt. Litumoni Nath was the petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 4872/2020. The petitioners in all the writ petitions had a licence to run I.M.F.L. ‘On’, Shops and they were given such a licence to run a liquor shop at a given place in a given district. All of them wanted that they should be allowed to shift/transfer their liquor shops to another place in another district. In other words, their prayer was for an inter-district transfer. The relevant provision under which these transfers were made earlier was Rule 294 of the Assam Excise Rules, 2016.The said Rule 294 reads as under:

“294. The opening, shifting and closures of any licensed premises shal