SURESH PUBLIC SCHOOL Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) WE have heard Shri S.N. Jaiswal, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner. Learned Standing Counsel appears for the State respondents.

(2.) THE petitioners are running school buses. By this writ petition the petitioners have prayed for directions in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to issue permit and fitness certificate to the petitioners' vehicles fixing the age of vehicles upto 20 years old model. They have also prayed for directions to the respondents to permit them to ply their buses upto the age of 20 years.

(3.) LEARNED Standing Counsel informs the Court that the order in Omwati Saraswati Junior High School, Jahangirabad and others (supra) was passed in absence of benefit of a judgment passed by the Division Bench of this Court, which has distinguished Ram Prakash's case and had upheld the authority of State Transport Authority to fix the age of vehicles to ply on road.