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Documents citing People For Animals vs Union Of India & Others on 20 May, 2011

Parveen Kumar Beniwal vs Govt. Of Nct Of Delhi & Anr on 29 April, 2015

20. Mention may also be made of the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in People for Animals Vs. UOI 180 (2011) DLT 460 holding that grant of a licence for acquisition and possession of firearms was only statutory privilege and not matter of fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India; such a licence is materially different from a licence for manufacture, sale etc. and while latter confers a right to carry on a trade or business and is a source of earning livelihood, the former is merely a personal privilege for doing something which without such privilege is unlawful; grant of such a privilege does not involve the adjudication of the right of individual nor does it entail civil consequences save that rejection of an application for grant of licence or cancellation of a licence may become legally vulnerable if arbitrary or capricious or without LPA No.41/2015 Page 15 of 18 application of mind; it was further held that no citizen has a blanket right to carry firearms and the application for firearms may be made mostly with the object of protecting the person or property but which too is mainly the function of the State.
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Rajkumar Pandey vs Additional Commissioner Of Police & ... on 29 September, 2015

Another Division Bench, in People for Animals Vs. Union of India 180 (2011) DLT 460, held that grant of a licence for acquisition and possession of firearms is only a statutory privilege and not a matter of fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution; such a licence is materially different from a licence for manufacture, sale etc. and that while the latter confers a right to carry on a trade or business and is a source of earning livelihood, the former is merely a personal privilege for doing something which, without such privilege is unlawful, grant of such W.P.(C) No.8000/2013 Page 6 of 9 privilege does not involve adjudication of right of individual nor does it entail civil consequence.
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Dharambir Khattar vs Gnctd & Ors. on 5 October, 2011

7. I am afraid, none of the judgments relied upon by the petitioner answer the query raised. I may, notice that recently a Division Bench of this Court in People for Animals Vs. UOI 180 (2011) DLT 460 has also held that grant of a licence for acquisition and possession of firearms was only statutory privilege and not matter of fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India; such a licence is materially different from a licence for manufacture, sale etc. and while latter confers a right to carry on a trade or business and is a source of earning livelihood, the former is merely a personal privilege for doing something which without such privilege is unlawful; grant of such a privilege does not involve the adjudication of the right of individual nor does it entail civil consequences save that rejection of an application for grant of licence or cancellation of a licence may become legally vulnerable if arbitrary or capricious or without application of mind; it was further held that no citizen has a blanket right to carry firearms and the W.P.(C) No.7360/2011 Page 7 of 9 application for firearms may be made mostly with the object of protecting the person or property but which too is mainly the function of the State.
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Avinash vs State ( Nct Of Delhi) on 3 June, 2016

7. The contention of learned senior counsel for the appellant that air gun is not a deadly weapon, thus does not attract Section 397 IPC is required to be looked into from the functionality of an air gun and its impact on the person on whom this weapon is used. The Division Bench of this Court in the decision reported as 2011 (180) DLT 460 DB People for Animals vs. Union of India & Ors. while dealing with the validity of the notification dated 13th July, 1962 whereby the exemption granted by the Central Government from regulation and control under the Arms Act qua air guns or air rifles and air pistols was quashed, held:
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