Hon’ble Dr. Devendra Kumar Arora, J.—By means of the instant writ petition, the petitioner has sought for quashing of the impugned order dated 7.1.2010 passed by the appellate authority/Commissioner and the order dated 29.6.2009 passed by opposite party No. 2/District Magistrate, Raibareli, by which fire arm license of the petitioner has been cancelled.

2. Submission of learned counsel for petitioner is that petitioner is a law abiding person of District Raebareli, where he is engaged in business and is also a Center Incharge of Dariyapur Sugar Mill. In the village the family of petitioner and Sri Shiv Narain Singh, due to political rivalry, is on inimical terms. It is said that in the by-election of the year 2000, the family members of Sri Shiv Narain Singh with the help of anti-social elements grievously assaulted the brother of the petitioner, namely, Sri Dal Bahadur Singh for which an FIR at Case Crime No. 88 of 2000 was registered against the accused persons. In the year 2005, during election when the wife of the petitioner was contesting, the family members of Sri Shiv Narain Singh with the help of anti-social elements badly assaulted the petitioner on 16.10.2005, FIR