Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:101864 Court No. - 33 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 32596 of 2024 Petitioner :- Bhanu Pratap Singh Respondent :- Ministry Of Home Affairs And 6 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Aishwarya Pratap Shahi,Parijat Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,C.S.C.,Surendra Nath Chauhan Hon'ble Prakash Padia,J. 1. Heard Sri Aishwarya Pratap Shahi, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Surendra Nath Chauhan, learned counsel for the respondent nos. 1 and 2 and Sri Kunal Ravi Singh, learned Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondents. 2. Order dated 04.09.2024 passed by the District Magistrate, Hapur/respondent no. 7 is under challenged in the present petition. By the aforesaid order the application submitted by the petitioner for the grant of fire arm license for sports purposes as per the notification issued by the Central Government dated February 12, 2020 was rejected. 3. Apart from various other arguments one of the argument has been raised by the counsel for the petitioner that the order impugned has been passed without providing any notice and opportunity to the petitioner, hence the same has been passed in complete violation of principles of natural justice. 4. This fact is also clear from the perusal of the order impugned and also admitted by the counsel for the respondents. 5. Heard counsel for the parties and perused the record. 6. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the Court is of the opinion that treating the order dated 04.09.2024 as a notice, the petitioner is directed to submit a reply ventilating all his grievances before respondent No.7/District Magistrate, Hapur, along with all relevant documents and papers on which the petitioner are making reliance and a certified copy of this order within a period of two weeks from today. If it is so, the respondent No.7 will pass an appropriate order in accordance with law taking into consideration all the materials and documents available on record most expeditiously and preferably within a period of two weeks thereafter. 7. With the aforesaid observations, the writ petition is finally disposed off. Order Date :- 1.7.2025 Arti Digitally signed by :- ARTI SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad