If your licence is cancelled, but you were not disqualified from driving (or the disqualification has ended), you cannot apply for an EDL. Instead, you can just re-apply for a driver's licence.
Power of licensing authority to disqualify from holding a driving licence or revoke such licence.
If a licensing authority is satisfied, after giving the holder of a driving licence an opportunity of being heard,
Section 19 of the Motor Vehicle Act empowers the licensing authority to disqualify from holding a driving licence or revoking such licence. Thus, under the legal provision only a licensing authority can suspend or revoke a driving license.
The issue of requirement of giving the holder of DL an opportunity of being heard was dealt with by the High Court of Delhi in the case of Ashish Gosain v. Department of Transport[1]. In this recent case, the Petitioner had challenged the suspension order on the ground that the Authority did not afford any opportunity of hearing to the petitioner which is mandatory under Section 19(1) of the Motor Vehicle Act.