IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No 5417 of 2009 Shashi Kumar, son of Sri Dyanand Prasad, resident of Village – Girhinda, P S – Sheikhpura, District – Sheikhpura - Petitioner Versus 1 The State of Bihar 2 Sub-divisional Officer, Sheikhpura - Respondents *** For the petitioner : M/s N K Agrawal, Sr Advocate & D N Tiwari, Saket Tiwary, Advocates *** 3 19.05.2009 Petitioner’s licence has been cancelled by the Subdivisional Officer and communicated under Memo No 20 dated 06.01.2009 (Annexure-3) which is under challenge. The only ground for cancellation is with reference to direction of the Secretary, Department of Food and Civil Supplies, as contained in Memo No 796 dated 04.03.2006. By the said order, several other licences were also cancelled. Out of them, several writ petitions were filed and have been allowed on the ground that when a person had, with due permission of the authorities, effected change in the status of licensee, by subsequent circular and/or enactment, that change cannot be declared to be illegal and licences, which are valid, cannot be cancelled. Those cases are CWJC No 4718 of 2009 disposed of on 17.04.2009 and CWJC No 5828 of 2009 disposed of on 14.05.2009. In that view of the matter, the writ petition is allowed. The licence of the petitioner being Licence No 8 of 1996 is restored. The impugned order is quashed. M.E.H./ (Navaniti Prasad Singh) 2