- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:32016 WP No. 9678 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 19TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B M SHYAM PRASAD WRIT PETITION NO. 9678 OF 2025 (GM-POLICE) BETWEEN: HANUMANTHARAYAPPA N S/O NARASAIAH, AGED ABOUT 63 YEARS, R/AT NO 244, BLUEJAY ATMOSPHERE, KARIBONAHALLI, BENGALURU 560073. …PETITIONER (BY SRI. V.S. VENKATESHA GOWDA.,ADVOCATE) AND: 1. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE BENGALURU CITY, OFFICE NO 2, ALI ASKAR ROAD, BENGALURU 560001. 2. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ADMINSITRATION, Digitally signed by VANAMALA N Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:32016 WP No. 9678 of 2025 BENGALURU CITY, BENGALURU 560001. …RESPONDENTS (BY SMT.K.P. YASHODHA., AGA) THIS W.P. IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO QUASH THE ORDER / ENDORSEMENT DATED 20.01.2025 BEARING NO. COPBCP/ ARMS/ ARM3(FAL)/ 44/2024 ISSUED BY THE R-2 IS HEREWITH PRODUCED AT ANNX-A; DIRECT THE R-1 AND 2 TO CONSIDER THE ONLINE APPLICATION DATED 04.10.2024 MADE BY THE PETITIONER TO OBTAIN GUN LICENCES PRODUCED AT ANNX-G. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B M SHYAM PRASAD - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:32016 WP No. 9678 of 2025 ORAL ORDER The petitioner is aggrieved by the second respondent's Endorsement dated 20.01.2025 [Annexure-A]. The second respondent, by this impugned Endorsement, has informed the petitioner that his request for issuance of an arms license cannot be considered because he has produced no document to justify issuance of such license. However, Sri V S Venkatesh Gowda, the learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that the petitioner's application for Arms license is in the following circumstances. [a] The petitioner is the owner of about two acres of land in Srigiripura Village, Kudur Hobli, Magadi Taluk and he has succeeded to the property after the demise of his mother. [b] The petitioner's mother was cultivating sandalwood trees, and the petitioner is tending to those trees even now - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:32016 WP No. 9678 of 2025 [c] The petitioner's mother was issued with Arms license given the threat to her life as she was growing sandalwood trees, and the petitioner, in the afore circumstances, also apprehends a threat to his life [d] The petitioner relies upon not just the Memorandum of Understanding entered with Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited, Bengaluru but also a report filed by the Range Forest Officer [Annexure-J]. Smt K P Yashodha, a learned Additional Government Advocate, who is called upon to accept notice for the respondents, is also heard in the light of the afore canvass, and on perusal of the records, this Court must opine that it was incumbent upon the second respondent to consider the request in the light of the petitioner's specific case which are enumerated as above and the failure has resulted in an arbitrary rejection. Hence there must be - 5 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:32016 WP No. 9678 of 2025 interference but only to restore the application for reconsideration within a certain timeline. Hence, the following: ORDER [a] The petition is allowed quashing the second respondent's Endorsement dated 20.01.2025 [Annexure-A] and restoring the petitioner’s application for reconsideration in the light of this Court's order and the documents that are relied upon by the petitioner. [b] The petitioner is reserved with liberty to file a certified copy of this order to enable such consideration within four [4] weeks from the date of receipt thereof. Sd/- (B M SHYAM PRASAD) JUDGE AN/-