IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 3113 OF 2005 Chandrakant Hargovinddas Shah .. Petitioner V/s Deputy Chief Minister & Ors. .. Respondents Mr.Suryavanshi i/b Mr.M.D. Parab for the Petitioner. Mr.Niranjan Pandit, A.G.P. for the Respondents. CORAM : H.L. GOKHALE & ABHAY S. OKA, JJ. DATE : 17TH JANUARY 2006 P.C. P.C. P.C. : 1. Heard Mr.Suryavanshi for the Petitioner and Mr.Pandit, A.G.P. for the Respondents. 2. Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith. Mr.Pandit waives service. 3. The Petitioner was having two weapon licences under the relevant rules. They were cancelled by the Deputy Commissioner of Police. He therefore filed an appeal. Minister of State for Home entertained his appeal with respect to one licence while dismissing it with respect to the other. It is this order dated 7th October 2005 which is under challenge in the present petition. 4. What we find is that no particular reasons are given in the impugned order as to why one licence was being denied to the Petitioner herein. The Petitioner must know as to why his appeal was being rejected in part. It is for this reason that we interfere with this order and restore the appeal, which the Petitioner had filed, to the file of Respondent No.1. Respondent No.1 will hear the Petitioner once again and then pass appropriate order giving reasons on the restored appeal. 5. Rule is made absolute as above with no order as to costs. (H.L. GOKHALE, J.) (ABHAY S. OKA, J.)