IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10632 of 2009 VISHWANATH SINGH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ANR ----------- 02. 25.08.2009 Petitioner wants a direction upon the District Magistrate, Bhojpur to re-register his arms licence within his/her jurisdiction since the petitioner has shifted his permanent residence from Delhi to the district of Bhojpur at Ara. Petitioner had been issued arms licence which is of .12 bore gun by the competent authority i.e. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Licensing, New Delhi. Since the petitioner has now retired from service and has settled down at his native place at Ara, he made a request before the Licensing Authority, New Delhi to issue ‘no objection certificate’. The same stood issued on 1.6.2004, a copy of which has been annexed as Annexure-2 to the present writ application. After the return of the petitioner to his native village, it is his submission that he intimated the above fact and requested the District Magistrate, Bhojpur but nothing seems to have been done for the last five years on this issue. There is no specific material which has been produced in the present writ application with regard to the submission of the intimation by the petitioner to the concerned authority about the change of place, residence and production of licence before the licensing authority. But if the petitioner has done what is required to be done under Rule 62 (4) of the Arms Rule, 1962, then it is obligatory on the part of the District Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara to - 2 - expedite the matter and pass appropriate order preferably within eight weeks from the date of production / communication of this order. The writ application stands disposed of with above direction. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)