Gagan Gupta vs Union Territory of J&K

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2021 Supreme(J&K) 426

TASHI RABSTAN, SANJAY DHAR
Gagan Gupta – Appellant
Versus
Union Territory of J&K – Respondent

Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.3/2012, CM No.500/2021:Mr. Sunil Sethi, Sr. Advocate with M/s. Parimoksh Seth and Navyug Sethi, Advocates
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.5/2011, CM No.529/2021:Mr. R.K. Jain, Sr. Advocate with M/s. Mohit Jain and Himani Uppal, Advocates
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.6/2021, CM No.531/2021:Mr. U.K. Jalali, Sr. Advocate with M/s. Anuj Sawhney and Shivani Jalali, Advocates
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.12/2021, CM No.622/2021 and RP No.16/2021, CM Nos.837 and 838/2021:Mr. Rahul Pant, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Rahil Raja, Advocate
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.13/2021, CM Nos.787, 788 & 789/2021, RP No.14/2021, CM Nos.792, 793 & 794/2021 and RP No.55/2021, CM No.2354, 2355 & 2356/2021:Mr. Rahul Bharti, Sr. Advocate with M/s. Satinder Gupta and Zoya Bhardwaj, Advocates
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.17/2021, CM No.856/2021:Mr. Altaf Naik, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Mohit Vaid, Advocate
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.52/2021, CM No.2343 & 2344/2021, RP No.53/2021, CM Nos.2345 & 2346/2021, RP No.54/2021, CM No.2348 & 2349/2021, RP No.59/2021, CM Nos.2430 & 2431/2021, RP No.62/2021, CM Nos.2551/2021 & 2552/2021 and RP No.63/2021, CM Nos.2554 & 2555/2021 :Mr. Z.A. Shah, Sr. Advocate with M/s. Rahil Raja, Tarun Sharma and Karan Sharma, Advocates
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.58/2021, CM Nos.2407 & 2408/2021 and WP(C) No.538/2021, CM No.2521/2021, CM No.2522/2021:Mr. Vivek Chib, Sr. Advocate with M/s. Prateek Dhanda, Yasser Ejaz Tak, Rahul Sharma and Anshuja Tak, Advocates
For the Appellant(s) in RP No.72/2021, CM Nos.2948, 2949 and 2950/2021:Mr. Abhinav Sharma, Sr. Advocate with M/s. Abhimanyu Sharma and Parkhi Parihar, Advocates
For the Respondent(s): Mr. H.A. Siddiqui, Sr. AAG, Mr. Aseem Sawhney, AAG, Mr. Raman Sharma, AAG and Mr. Bhanu Jasrotia, GA

Judgment :

Sanjay Dhar, J.-By virtue of above titled review petitions and one writ petition, the petitioners are seeking review of judgment dated 28.12.2020 passed by this Court in a bunch of intra court appeals and one writ petition bearing LPAOW Nos. 11/2017, 20/2017, 21/2017, 22/2017, 23/2017, 44/2017 and OWP No. 486/2017. In these Letters Patent Appeals (LPAs), challenge was made to a common judgment of learned Single Judge passed in OWP No. 822/2005, titled, Sandya Devi and others vs. State of J&K and others and several others writ petitions connected therewith.

(A) Background facts:

2. Several writ petitions came to be filed before the learned Single Judge wherein challenge was laid to communication dated 14.12.2005 (Notice for cancellation of temporary licenses) addressed to the writ petitioners by the Excise Commissioner. Certain other writ petitions were filed before the learned Single Judge seeking regularization of temporary licenses issued in their favour by the competent authority by draw of lots. All these writ petitions came to be decided by the learned Single Judge by a common judgment dated 06.02.2017. Paragraphs 34, 35 and 36 of the judgment of the learned Single J

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2021 Supreme(J&K) 426

TASHI RABSTAN, SANJAY DHARGagan Gupta – AppellantVersusUnion Territory of J&K – Respondent

Cases Referred (6)

TASHI RABSTAN, SANJAY DHAR
Gagan Gupta – Appellant
Versus
Union Territory of J&K – Respondent