1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 267 OF 2009 Mohan Prabhakar Amre. ... Petitioner. Versus State of Maharashtra & Anr. .... Respondents. Mr. C. K. Pendse for the Petitioner. Mrs. U. V. Kejriwal, APP for the State. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI and A. R. JOSHI, JJ. DATED : 3RD MARCH, 2009. P.C.: Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent State. 2. The petitioner was in possession of the arm licence which was valid upto 10th August, 2007. He moved an application for its renewal. The application was not decided till he was given show cause notice in October, 2007 calling him to show cause as to why the licence given to him should not be cancelled on the ground that the case had been registered against him. The case of the petitioner is that there is no question of cancellation of licence because no licence was in existence in 2 October, 2007 as the respondents have not decided his application for renewal. 3. Obviously, there was no need to cancel the licence as the licence had already expired. The order cancelling the licence subsequent to the show cause notice was, therefore, of no consequence. However, the petitioner has applied for renewal of licence. The respondents may consider that application on its own merits and pass appropriate orders within two weeks from today. 4. With the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. Sd/­ (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/­ (A. R. JOSHI, J.)