IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.6575 of 2006 Between: R. Poorna Chandra Reddy S/o R. Ramachandra Reddy R/o Kamaloor, Thavanampalli Mandal, Chittoor District ..... PETITIONER AND The District Collector Chittoor District Chittoor .....RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner:NONE APPEARED The Court made the following: ORDER: At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal. In this writ petition, the petitioner’s grievance is that the application for renewal of license of his D.B.B.L. Gun bearing No.A/307/4/BPM, is not being disposed of. No counter-affidavit is filed. The respondent, who is the statutory renewal authority of the Arms License under the Arms Act, 1959 (for short ‘the Act’) is under legal obligation to dispose of the petitioner’s application, if it is filed in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder. Therefore, while finding legitimacy in the grievance of the petitioner for non-disposal of his application for renewal, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondent to dispose of the petitioner’s application for renewal of Arms License, if it was filed by him and has not so far been disposed of, in accordance with law, within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.8403 of 2006 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 5th JUNE, 2009. kvni