Municipalities

Licence

— Private market — Renewal of licence for — Belated application made for — Relevant provision requiring said application to be filed not less than six weeks before expiry of licence — Renewal application filed in 1998 after expiry of licence on 31-3-1996 — Rejection of, held, was justified — Renewal of licence retrospectively after the expiry of the period during which the licensee had unauthorisedly carried on activities was not contemplated in law — View taken by High Court that there was no bar in making said application beyond stipulated period, not proper, (2006) 7 SCC 708