Mr. A.S. Gupta v. the Secretary
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court at Bengaluru; NC: 2025:KHC:8943; WP No. 44515 of 2011 (GM-RES); decided 03-03-2025 by Suraj Govindaraj J. Keywords: writ petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India; mandamus; notary public licence renewal; duplicate Notarial Licence/Certificate; Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of Justice, Government of India; annual returns; inadequate notarisation; party-in-person rules Form A, Form B, Form C; waiver of filing requirement under inherent power; 30-day direction to file and consider renewal application; petition partly allowed; no precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition partly allowed: petitioner permitted to file an application for renewal of his notarial licence within 30 days, and upon such filing the respondents are directed to consider the same within a period of 30 days thereafter; the Form-A/Form-B requirement under the party-in-person rules stands waived for the petitioner.