THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA Writ Petition No.19732 OF 2009 ORDER: 1. The case of the petitioners, in brief, is that they are proprietory concerns and are running Bar and Restaurants having all the required licences. While so, the respondents are insisting them to take an amusement licence, though the same is not required and the petitioners concerns do not come under the "place of public amusement" and are interfering with their activities and threatening to book a case under Section 294 of IPC, if the amusement licence is not obtained. The same is questioned in this writ petition. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Government Pleader for Home. 3. During the course of arguments, the learned counsel for the petitioners has drawn the attention of this Court to a judgment dated 23.12.2005 passed by the Division Bench of this Court in W.A.Nos.2545 of 2005 and batch, wherein the Division Bench directed the 1st respondent herein to pass appropriate orders on the representations of the appellants therein within two weeks and till such time the appellants therein were allowed to carry on their activities in accordance with the licences granted for running Bar and Restaurant. The respondents therein also were directed not to interfere with the activities of the appellants therein, if they use live band or other instruments of music in the Bar and Restaurant. 4. In the light of the said judgment, this Court is of the view that this writ petition also can be disposed of with a similar direction, as the one passed by the Division Bench of this Court referred to above. 5. Accordingly, this writ petition is disposed of directing the petitioners to submit their representations within one week from today, if they have not already submitted, and on such representations, the respondents shall consider the same and pass appropriate orders thereon, within a period of two (2) weeks thereafter. Pending consideration of the said representations to be submitted by the petitioners, the respondent authorities shall not interfere with the petitioners’ business activity i.e. use of live band or other instruments of music in the Bar and Restaurant. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 16th November, 2009 Kvsn