Key legal question
Whether refusing a site inspection violated the appellant's right to be heard under Art. 29(2) of the Constitution
Extracted holding
No. The lower court could, without arbitrariness, anticipate that a local inspection would not bring decisive new elements and rely on the file, photographs, and prior on-site police visit.
Extracted reasoning
The right to adduce evidence is limited to decisive facts. An authority may refuse evidence after anticipatory assessment when the measure is not decisive or would not alter its view, unless that assessment is arbitrary. Here the court gave coherent reasons, relied on existing detailed material, and the appellant failed to show arbitrariness.