Partly allowed
Surekha Umesh Shetty v. the Collector of Mumbai (City) State Excise Dept and 3 Others
Bombay HCWP/1820/2016
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
This writ petition challenges the suspension of a liquor licence without a show-notice. As an appeal was already pending before the Commissioner of State Excise, the court discharged the petition and ordered the Commissioner to decide the appeal within eight weeks while staying the impugned suspension order.
What did the court decide?
The appeal by the petitioner before the Commissioner of State Excise was to be decided within eight weeks; impugned order stayed pending appeal and two weeks thereafter.