Supreme Court of India

Ghaio Mall & Sons v. The State of Delhi & Others

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Decided 30 September 1958

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What the Court ordered

We hold that there was no valid order granting the L-2 license to Messrs.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

The appellant firm, an unsuccessful applicant for a license for vending foreign liquor in New Delhi for the year 954- 1955, moved the High Court under art. 226 of the Constitution for a writ of certiorari quashing the order granting the license to a rival applicant and impleaded the Chief Minister, the Excise Commissioner, the Secretary and the Under Secretary, Finance, of the State of Delhi, as it then was, as parties to the application.…

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