VIJAY KUMAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) All the aforesaid writ petitions are being decided by this common or - der as in all of them common questions of law and facts are involved. S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 6759/2003

(2.) This writ petition under Arts. 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioner against the respondents on 29-11-2003 with the prayer that by appropriate writ, order or direction, the judgment dated 7-11-2003 (Annexure P/4) passed by the respondent No. 2 State Transport Appellate Tribunal (for short "the Tribunal") by which the Tribunal allowed the appeals of the respondent Nos. 4, to 6, namely, Nirmal Kumar, Shiv Bhagwan and Satvir respectively and set aside the order dated 13-6-2000 (Annexure P/2) passed by the respondent No. 3 Regional Transport Authority, Bikaner rejecting the applications of the respondent Nos. 4 to 6 for renewal of the permits on the inter-State route Bhadra- Hissar via Bagla, be quashed and set aside. J'

(3.) The case of the petitioner as put forward by him in this writ petition is as follows : There is an inter-State route Bhadra- Hissar via Bagla. On 9-7-1997, an agreement (Annexure P/ 1) was entered into between the State of Rajasthan and Haryana and it came to be published in the official gazette dated 15-7-1997 and by that agreement Annexure P/1, it,was agreed upon that the number of permits for the Rajasthan nominees for the rout Bhadra-Hissar via Bagla would be 4 to provide daily four return services. Thereafter, on 29-9-1999 the respondent Nos. 4 to 6 submitted applications for renewal of their permits on the route in question before the respondent No. 3 Regional Transport Authority, Bikaner, but the respondent No. 3 Regional Transport Authority through order dated 13-6-2000 (Annexure P/2) rejected their applications. The further case of the petitioner is that after rejection of the applications of the respondent Nos. 3 to 6 for renewal through order Annexure P/2 dated 13-6-2000, the respondent No. 3 Regional Transport Authority considered the fresh applications against the then vacancies existing under the agreement Annexure P/1 and through order dated 22-7-2000 (Annexure P/3) granted four permits in favour of following four persons :