Tapen Sen, J.

1. In this Writ Application the Petitioner has prayed for quashing of the order dated 12.7.2001 passed by the Divisional Forest Officer, Deoghar (Respondent No. 3) in Confiscation Case No, 27 of 2000 by which the application for grant of licence was refused and the Petitioner was. directed to displace his Saw Mill within fifteen days from the order and deposit those 21 logs (which had been confiscated during the year 1995) with the Range Officer of Forest, Deoghar soil Conservation Range at Kalyanpur Range Campus. By the same order the other 63 pieces of logs and 25 pieces of Sawn Timber were released with a direction upon the Petitioner to dispose off the same within fifteen days from the order.

2. The Petitioner has also made a prayer for a direction upon the Respondents to grant him the necessary licence treating him to be licencee with effect from 1995 (from the date the Petitioner had deposited the requisite fee) and further, to renew the licence in terms of the Bihar Saw Mill Regulation Act, 1990.

3. The Petitioner filed an application for grant of licence in the year 1995 for operation of a Saw Mill in terms of the said Act, Subsequently, on or about 29.5.199