JUDGMENT :

(VIJU ABRAHAM, J.)

All these writ petitions are filed challenging orders passed by the Additional District Magistrate, whereby the application submitted by the petitioners for the issuance of LE-6 licence has been rejected.

2. In W.P.(C) Nos.10984, 11108 & 11135 of 2024, one of the reasons stated by the respondents for rejecting the application is that the petitioners have not submitted the application two months prior to the scheduled fire works display and that no sufficient time was available to conduct the risk assessment study and prepare a disaster management plan and to take necessary steps to make arrangements to tackle with any untoward incident that might happen during the fireworks display. Further objection raised by the additional District Magistrate in all these cases is that no magazine as stipulated by the PESO is made available and that the petitioners have not submitted the risk assessment plan as well as the on-site emergency plan. Yet another objection raised is that the samples of the explosives have not been verified so as to find out whether there are any objectionable ingredients have been used while manufacturing the explosives.

3. The learned Govern