1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 5924 OF 2008 Kavi Keshav Shirsale Krida Mandal ...Petitioner Versus The State of Maharashtra and others ...Respondents ..... Mr. Satish M. Goday, advocate for the petitioner Mr. K.J. Ghute Patil, AGP for respondents ..... CORAM : S. S. SHINDE, J. DATE OF RESERVATION : 01.09.2009 OF ORDER DATE OF PRONOUCNEMENT : 25.09.2009 OF ORDER PER COURT:- 1 This writ petition is directed against the order dated 11.9.2008 passed by the respondent No.3 Collector, Jalgaon thereby cancelling licence of the petitioner Trust, without issuing any notice and/or without giving opportunity of being heard to the petitioner Trust. 2 Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner has invited my attention to the grounds in the petition and the impugned order and 2 has submitted that the impugned order cancelling licence of the petitioner Trust is passed without issuing any notice and without giving any opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, and therefore, the said order is unsustainable and on this ground alone, the impugned order deserves to be set aside. 3 Learned AGP appearing for the respondents State authorities has invited my attention to the contents of the affidavit in reply and submitted that the impugned order is perfectly justified in law. The licence is granted on some terms and conditions and the authorities has every right to cancel the licence in case there is breach of the said conditions. 4 After hearing counsel for the petitioner and the learned AGP for the State authorities, I am of the considered view that the order impugned, thereby cancelling the licence of the petitioner Trust without issuing notice and without giving opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, is not sustainable in law. It is well settled principles of law that even in absence of any specific provision for affording hearing, the authority or the court, as the case may be, is bound to follow the principles of natural justice when the order is going to affect the substantial rights of the parties concerned. It is not in dispute that before licence was cancelled by impugned order dated 11.9.2008 by the Collector, no notice or opportunity of hearing was given to the 3 petitioner Trust. 5 In view of the aforesaid circumstances, the impugned order dated 11.9.2008, thereby cancelling the licence of the petitioner Trust by the Collector, Jalgaon, is set aside. However, from perusal of the licence issued to the petitioner it appears that the said licence was issued for the period from 21.1.2008 to 31.12.2008. The said licence cannot be ordered to be reviewed since the period for which it was issued, has come to an end. Writ petition is accordingly allowed and disposed of. *****