C A V Order

13 /05/2016 The petitioners, in the aforesaid batch of petitions, by their respective petitions, have assailed legality and validity of the notices issued by the respondent No.2/District Magistrate, Raipur, whereby the petitioners have been directed to shift their manufacturing unit/magazine store/ retail shop from the present location to other places, failing which, licence shall be cancelled.

2. Most of the petitioners in the aforesaid petitions are those, who were granted licence in Form LE-5 as retailers for sale of Fireworks/crackers. The petitioner in WPC No.744/2016 has been granted license in Form LE-1 for manufacturing fireworks. The petitioner in WPC No.745/2016 has been granted in Form LE-3 for magazine storage of crackers. Rest of the petitioners have been granted license as retailers. In all the petitions, challenge has been made by the respective petitioners to notice dated 06-02-2016 issued by the Additional District Magistrate for District Magistrate, Raipur. The notice requires all the petitioners to remove their existing shop from the present location to elsewhere, giving reference to a memorandum of the State Government. The notice states that as per th