WPMS/951/2023
2025 Latest Caselaw 4827 UK

Uttarakhand High Court

WPMS/951/2023 on 13 October, 2025

Author: Manoj Kumar Tiwari

Bench: Manoj Kumar Tiwari

                                                                                2025:UHC:9081
              Office Notes,
             reports, orders
             or proceedings
SL.
      Date    or directions                   COURT'S OR JUDGE'S ORDERS
No.
             and Registrar's
               order with
               Signatures
                               WPMS/950/2023
                               With
                               WPMS/951/2023

                               Hon'ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Mr. Abdul Ali, Advocate, holding brief of Mr. Bhupesh Kandpal, Advocate for the petitioner.

2. Mr. Ganesh Dutt Kandpal, Deputy Advocate General for the State of Uttarakhand.

3. Since common questions of fact and

law are involved in these petitions,

therefore, they are clubbed together and are

being heard & decided by a common

judgment.

4. Petitioner was granted FL-2 license by the State Government for wholesale of Indian Made Foreign Liquor, which was renewed lastly for financial year 2022-23.

5. By means of this writ petition, petitioner has sought the following relief:-

""(a). A writ order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner and further grant the licnese of BWFL-2B as per clause 20 of the Excise Policy 2023 to the petitioner in accordance with law."

6. Learned State Counsel submits that the relief as claimed by petitioner do not 2025:UHC:9081 survive, as the FL-2 license for financial year 2023-24 cannot be renewed now.

7. This Court finds substance in the said submission. Due to efflux of time, the writ petitions have become infructuous.

8. Accordingly, the writ petitions are dismissed.

(Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.) 13.10.2025

Navin NAVEEN Digitally signed by NAVEEN CHANDRA DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=3be23325146e76a0642bdf4943fb9046f487df006da82a

CHANDRA 131bb4e4403d3c0a15, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=18167EEFB5CA8CFFD421A103819DA875643AF56 D653D095C6ED9A86DAAB21CE5, cn=NAVEEN CHANDRA Date: 2025.10.14 10:26:22 +05'30'