JUDGMENT :

PUSHPENDRA SINGH BHATI, J.

1. In wake of instant surge in COVID-19 cases and spread of its highly infectious Omicron variant, the lawyers have been advised to refrain from coming to the Courts.

2. Counsel for the parties jointly submit that the controversy involved in this petition is covered by order passed by this Court in bunch of writ petitions lead by Goverdhan Singh Parihar vs. State of Rajasthan and Others (S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 4452/2019, decided on 10.11.2021) which reads as follows:

“Learned counsels for the present petitioners have laid the grievances with regard to matters relating to licenses of firearms under the Arms Act, 1959 (hereinafter “the Act of 1959”) before the Court, viz. inaction and unjustified delay in issuance of arms license/no opportunity of hearing given and despite pendency of only one criminal case/rejected without cause or speaking order/renewal denied despite acquittal in criminal cases/renewal denied despite pending criminal case related to gambling and thereby not impacting public safety/no transfer to legal heir despite surrender of old license/no grant or refusal of application for license and inordinate delay, despite prescribed