In a relief to meat sellers in the neighbouring Palghar district, the Bombay High Court today stayed a notice issued to them by the civic body concerned asking them to shut shop on suspicion that they had been selling beef. A bench of justices A S Oka and P N Deshmukh asked whether mere suspicion was a valid ground to suspend the licences of the meat sellers, who had apparently not breached any terms and conditions of their licences.