HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 4407 OF 2011. DATED 19th April, 2011. BETWEEN Mohd. Mustafa Khan …Petitioner and Union of India, Rep. by its Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi and ors ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 4407 OF 2011. ORDER: The petitioner is a sports shooter and has participated in numerous shooting championship competitions as mentioned in paragraphs 5 and 6 of the affidavit filed in support of the Writ Petition. In this Writ Petition, he has prayed that a direction be issued to allow the application of the petitioner for grant of Arms licence as per his entitlement. It is submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner submitted application on 22.3.2010 to the respondents for grant of Arms licence as per his entitlement, but till date, he has not been given licence. He further submits that the respondents be directed to issue Arms Licence in terms of his application dated 22.3.2010. In the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the respondents, it is stated that at the time of filing the application, the petitioner did not file relevant documents and therefore he was asked to submit the relevant documents in original and the same was submitted by him after substantial delay and hence there is delay in ordering the application. Now the respondents have the relevant documents as requisitioned by them from the petitioner. In that view of the matter, the fourth respondent is directed to consider the aforesaid application of the petitioner for issuance of Arms Licence, in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a coy of this order. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ------------------------------------ -- JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA Dated 19th April, 2011. Msnro