Ranawat, J. —These are two applications by Madanlal Kapur under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, one of them is directed against the District Magistrate of Kotah and others, and the other against the District Magistrate of Jaipur.

2. The facts leading to both these applications are to a very large extent similar and this is why we are disposing them of together by one judgment.

3. In writ application No. 50 of 1952 the petitioner has also impleaded along with the District Magistrate of Kotah the State of Rajasthan and the Superintendent of Police, Kotah, as the opposite parties. In the other application he has however contended himself by impleading the District Magistrate of Jaipur only. His case in petition No. 50 is that he wanted to run a Variety Show and to organise certain games along with it at Kotah for profit, to which the public was to be allowed access. He commenced the show on the 21st of Aprill952 at Kotah under the name of Jai Hind Variety Show and two items of his performance were of shooting by pistol from a distance of 12 ft. at numbers or colours marked on a Board. The persons who attempted to undertake pistol shooting were given the choice of selecting the

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