1951 (11) TMI 17 - SC - Indian Laws

Whether an order should issue under section 45 of the Specific Relief Act against the appellant, who is the Commissioner of Police, Bombay?

Held that:- Appeal dismissed. The Commissioner of Police be directed to consider the requests made to him for cancellation of the license sanctioned by his letter dated the 14/16th of July, 1947, and, after weighing all the different aspects of the matter, and after bringing to bear his own unlettered judgment on the subject, himself to issue a definite and unambiguous order either canceling or refusing to cancel the said license in the exercise of the absolute discretion vested in him by Rule 250 of the Rules for Licensing and Controlling Theaters and Other Places of Public Amusement in Bombay City, 1914