K.T. Sankaran, J.

The question involved in this Writ Petition is whether a Sub Inspector of Police can issue an order directing the owner of a hotel to close down the hotel after 11 p.m. on the ground that anti social elements used to go to the hotel during night and also on the ground that traffic block would occur as a result of parking of container lorries and goods vehicles near the hotel premises.

2. The petitioner is running Sree Bhadra Hotel at Sakthikulangara. He has got the necessary licences, registration and certificates from the authorities to run the hotel. Ext.P1 Health Card and the licence issued by the Corporation of Kollam and the identity card issued by the Food, Safety and Standards Authority of India would show that he is entitled to run the hotel. The hotel has no lodging facility. In the area where the hotel is situated, fishing operations take place during day and night. It is stated that there are three or four petrol bunks and more than four hotels in the locality. Two workshops are situated nearby. It is stated that even during midnight, business activities are going on in the place. Boats will be taken to sea during midnight and early morning for