The petitioner feels aggrieved by an order dated 11.12.1995, passed in the proceedings under the Arms Act, whereunder the licence given to him for keeping a 12 bore gun with a single barrel was cancelled exercising the jurisdiction under section 17(3) of the aforesaid Act.

The aforesaid order passed by the licensing authority was challenged by the petitioner in appeal.

The appellate authority, however, endorsing the findings recorded by the licensing authority dismissed the appeal vide the impugned order dated 10.9.1996.

The petitioner has now approached this Court seeking redress praying for the reversal of the impugned orders.

During the pendency of this writ petition, an application being I.A. No. 4696 of 1997 was filed on 2.7.1997, seeking amendment in the writ petition for bringing on record the judgment and order passed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Bhander, District Datia in Criminal Case No. 144 of 1994.

It was asserted that the only basis on which the impugned order of cancellation of the licence granted in favour of the petitioner had been passed was the pendency of the crime case No. 22 of 1994, under sections 336, 504 and 506-B of the Indian Penal Co