Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 8: In two different petitions filed by Iqbal Kalra and Manmohan Kour challenging the impugned Order No. 161 EC of 2022 dated 23.08.2022, High Court has stayed the re-auction of two liquor vends situated at Panchayat Jaganoo in Udhampur.
During the course of hearing, Advocate YE Tak submitted that liquor vend license (JKEL-2) is issued only for a period of one year starting from 1st April to 31st March. The person gets only nine months to recover his dues as three months time lapses in getting the shop on rent and completing other formalities.
However, in the present case since the petitioner was declared successful in re-auction bid and thereafter, fulfillment of various conditions and requirement for issuance of JKEL-2 license also took considerable time, however, when all the formalities were completed for the issuance of license in favour of the petitioner, respondent instead of issuing the license passed the orders impugned without proper application of mind by misconstruing the provisions of the J&K Liquor License and Sales Rules, 1984.
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