https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190106 A liquor licence renewal under Section 45 of the Bihar Excise Act cannot be refused on arbitrary or irrelevant grounds, and the authority must rely on reasons germane to renewal as recorded in the impugned order. The validity of the original grant could not be reopened at the renewal stage where that grant had not been challenged in time, and later factors such as payment of renewal fee or timeliness of the application could not be used to justify the refusal when they were not the basis of the order. The refusal based solely on alleged invalidity of the original grant was therefore unlawful, and the matter was remitted for reconsideration in accordance with law. en-us Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:44:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190106 A liquor licence renewal under Section 45 of the Bihar Excise Act cannot be refused on arbitrary or irrelevant grounds, and the authority must rely on reasons germane to renewal as recorded in the impugned order. The validity of the original grant could not be reopened at the renewal stage where that grant had not been challenged in time, and later factors such as payment of renewal fee or timeliness of the application could not be used to justify the refusal when they were not the basis of the order. The refusal based solely on alleged invalidity of the original grant was therefore unlawful, and the matter was remitted for reconsideration in accordance with law. Case-Laws Customs Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190106