CIVIL WRIT JURISDICTION CASE No.9543 OF 2008. - --- In the matter of an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. - --- KALPANA KUMARI d/o late Laxman Chaudhary, resident of House of Basudeo Prasad, 2nd floor, Near Rashmi Rathi Gas Godown, Hanuman Nagar, P.S. Patrakar Nagar, District- Patna. Permanent resident of village- Sahar Abgilla, P.S. Sahar,District- Arrah. .......Petitioner Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. Commissioner, Patna Division, Patna, Bihar. 3. District Magistrate, Patna. 4. Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna. ......Respondents. ----------- For The Petitioner : Mr. MADANJEET KUMAR For The Respondent :AAG-8 P R E S E N T THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVANITI PRASAD SINGH Navaniti Pd. Singh,:- Petitioner is a staff nurse and is unmarried. She applied for an arms licence for a revolver to the District Magistrate-cum- Collector, Patna, on the ground that she had been receiving hostile and abusive phone calls which made her feel insecure. Initially, the Collector rejected her application without speaking order, which was set aside by the Divisional Commissioner, Patna and the matter remanded back to the Collector .The Collector, Patna thereafter heard the parties and held that the petitioner was unable to satisfy the District Magistrate-cum- Collector of her specific necessity for an arms licence and as such rejected the application. The - 2 - Commissioner, Patna in appeal not interfered . Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner, in my view, an arms licence cannot be obtained as a matter of right. There has to be an extra ordinary situation showing that it is a necessity. The facts, as noted above, do not disclose any such necessity specially for a lady , who is a nurse and working in the hospital. In that view of the matter the writ petition is dismissed. Patna High Court, 8th April, 2010, S.Singh (NAFR) (Navaniti Prasad Singh)