In ‘R Ravikumar Vs The Sub Inspector Of Police’ a division bench of Justices KT Sankaran and K Abraham Mathew, set aside a directive issued by the Sub Inspector of the Kerala Police to the petitioner for the closure of his hotel post eleven each night. The question that arose before the bench was whether the Kerala Police Act empowered a police sub inspector to order the closure of hotels and eating joints at any time during day or night. More