ORDER :- This writ application under Article 226 of the Constitution has been filed by petitioner Mangilal to challenge the order of the District Excise Officer, Ajmer dated 19th December, 1969, suspending the petitioner's license granted to him under the Rajasthan Excise Act, 1950.

2. The case of the petitioner is as follows :

3. The petitioner was given a license under the Rajasthan Excise Act, 1950 (hereinafter called the Act) for carrying on the business of selling country liquor in the town of Beawar. This license was granted for a period commencing from 1-4-1969 to 31-3-1970. It is alleged that the petitioner by filing a separate writ application before this Court had challenged the guarantee system on which the licenses were granted in the State by the Excise authorities for the sale of country liquor and that writ petition was admitted by this Court. This action of the petitioner resulted in the straining of the relations between the petitioner and the Excise Officers and it is said that it is out of a revengeful spirit that the respondents were out to find faults with the petitioner and to punish him. On 17-12-1969 the Inspector of the Excise Department came for the