HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B. VIJAYSEN REDDY WRIT PETITION No.15780 OF 2023 ORDER : (ORAL)

This writ petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to declare the impugned Memo No.458/Arms/2023 dated 08.06.2023, as being, illegal, arbitrary and contemptuous, being contrary to the directions passed by this Court by the order dated 31.10.2022 in W.P. No.5858 of 2018.

2. It is submitted that the petitioner was granted arms licence in 1991 for possessing three (3) weapons i.e. 32 NPB revolver, 12 Bore DBBL gun and 22 rifle vide arms licence No.596/B'Hills. In 2011, the petitioner submitted renewal application dated 04.05.2012 and the same was rejected on the ground that his brother by name Mr. Ahmed Bin Salam was involved in eight (8) crimes and that the weapons of the petitioner were used in commission of such crimes; that the brother of the petitioner is a rowdy sheeter. It is submitted that show cause notice dated 26.05.2011 was issued to the petitioner calling upon his to submit his explanation as to why his arms licence should not be cancelled, since his brother used to collect the weapons and commit offences. Order No.HW3/Arms/596/ Banjara Hills, dated 19.07.2012 was passed by the Commiss