BALASAHEB SONBA CHAVAN vs DILIP BABURAO RAJPUT (DECEASED) THR. LRS

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WP 13956-24 SPEAKING.DOC IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 13956 OF 2024 IN LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 315 OF 2013 LAXMI SUBHASH IN SONTAKKE WRIT PETITION NO. 7895 OF 2011 Digitally signed by LAXMI SUBHASH SONTAKKE WITH Date: 2025.11.21 11:12:39 +0530 LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 315 OF 2013 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 7895 OF 2011 Balasaheb Sonba Chavan ...Applicant/Appellant Versus Dilip Baburao Rajput (since deceased) through his legal heirs & Ors. ..Respondents Ms. Veena Thadhani a/w Rutuja Gaikwad for Applicant/Appellant. Mr. Shrirang Katneshwarkar a/w Sandeep Gupta, Vivek Chauhan for Respondent No. 1 to 1E. Ms. neha Bhide, GP a/w A. 1. Patel, Addl.G.P., M. S. Bane, AGP for Respondent State. CORAM: G. S. KULKARNI & AARTI SATHE, JJ. DATE: 6th NOVEMBER 2025 ORAL JUDGMENT (Per Aarti Sathe, J.) 1. This Letters Patent Appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 19th October 2012 (hereinafter referred to as the “impugned order”) passed by the learned Single Judge whereby Writ Petition No. 7895 of 2011 along with Civil Application 1762 of 2012 filed by Partner of the Appellant’s father Mr. Sonba Anaji Chavan i.e. Mr. Dilip Baburao Rajput was partly allowed. Being aggrieved by Page 1 of 8 Laxmi This Judgment is modified as per speaking to the minutes of the order dated 19 th November 2025 WP 13956-24 SPEAKING.DOC certain findings given in the impugned order, the Appellant has filed the present Letters Patent Appeal. 2. Briefly the facts are:- 2.1 Sometime in the year 1973-74, the Appellant’s father i.e. Mr. Sonba Anaji Chavan was granted Vendor’s license (hereinafter referred to as the License) in form FL-II and CL/FL-III by the Government of Maharashtra under the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949. This License was g