1. The petitioner has come forward with this writ petition challenging the order dated 21.07.2015, whereby the first respondent refused to renew the document writer licence issued to the petitioner, which deprived him to practice such profession of document writer.

2. The petitioner is a document writer by profession and he acquired such skill of writing documents by experience. The petitioner obtained a licence issued by the first respondent in the year 1977. Thereafter, The Tamil Nadu Document Writers Licence Rules, 1982 (hereinafter referred to as The Rules) came into force with effect from 12.04.1982. As per Rule 12 of The Rules, such licence issued to a document writer has to be renewed once in five years. As far as the petitioner is concerned, he renewed his licence periodically from time to time and lastly, his licence was renewed on 13.01.1997 with effect from 01.01.1997 and it has it's validity till 31.12.2002. However, even before expiry of the licence, the petitioner got selected and appointed to the post of Village Administrative Officer in Tiruchengode Taluk and therefore, he could not renew the licence. According to the petitioner, he retired from his service o