The petitioner challenged the cancellation of his stamp vendor licence due to deliberate blank entries in his register. The Division Bench dismissed the writ petition, upholding the findings that the blank spaces were used for potential fraud and fabrication.
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In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh
C.W.P. No. 7234 of 2008
Date of Decision: 2.5.2008
Sukhdev Singh Rajput
…Petitioner
Versus
State of Punjab and others
…Respondents
CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR
HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE SABINA
Present: Mr. Sarbjeet Singh Khaira, Advocate,
for the petitioner.
M.M. KUMAR, J.
The instant petition is directed against order dated 10.9.2003/24.9.2003 (P-1), passed by the Collector, Gurdaspur, cancelling the licence of stamp vendor granted to the petitioner in the year 1993-94. The petitioner has further prayed that the order dated 29.8.2006 (P-2), passed by the Commissioner, Jalandhar Division, Jalandhar, upholding the order of the Collector, Gurdaspur, be also set aside.
The petitioner, who is an ex-serviceman has been concurrently found guilty of serious lapses in maintaining his stamp vending register. It has been found as a fact that at a number of places spaces have been left blank and the entries have not been made, which is a deliberate act. The spaces are stated to have been
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kept blank in order to make entries later on with ulterior motive. It is trite to observe that stamp papers worth thousands of rupees are purchased by the general public and if a stamp vendor is indulging in such mal-practice then he would be a cause in purportrating avoidable fraud and fabrication. It is common knowledge that in civil litigation a number of documents of small denomination are presented which might be in the form of agreement to sell or compromise etc. Such like blank spaces sometimes are used for execution of fabricated and anti-dating documents which are set up in the legal proceedings as a proof of one transaction or the other. Therefore, we are in agreement with the findings recorded by the Commissioner, Jalandhar Division, Jalandhar and the view expressed by him that leaving of blank spaces in the stamp vendor’s register has been done by the petitioner with an ulterior motive so as to use the same on some later date. Accordingly, the impugned orders are upheld vide which stamp vending licence of the petitioner has been cancelled. The writ petition is wholly without merit and the same is dismissed.
(M.M. KUMAR) JUDGE
(SABINA) JUDGE
May 2, 2008 Pkapoor
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the cancellation of the petitioner's stamp vendor licence for maintaining a stamp vending register with blank spaces left for future entry with ulterior motive is justified.
Sukhdev Singh Rajput
State of Punjab
M.M. KUMAR
SABINA
As recorded by the court registry
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