DALICHAND Vs. STATE TRANSPORT AUTHORITY JAIPUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an application by Dalichand Kalal under Art. 226 of the Consti-tution praying for a writ of certiorary, prohibition and mandamus against the State Transport Authority (Appellate Authority), Jaipur quashing the order made by that Authority on the 21st December, 1955.

(2.) THE application is a long one, and it is not necessary to set it out in detail. Suffice it to say that the brief facts are that the Regional Transport Authority, Udaipur invited applications for permits on the Udaipur-Rikhabdev Dungarpur route as permits of four stage-carriages on that route were expiring, Those four persons, whose permits were expiring, naturally applied for renewal, while a number of other persons applied for being considered for grant of permits on this route. THE Regional Transport (Authority considered all these matters on the 12th and 13th of Nov. , 1954 and decided to renew the four permits, and refused the applications of all new applicants. THE relevant part of their order is as follows - "it was felt that the buses operating on these routes at the moment are adequate to cater the traffic. THEy are serving the public satisfactorily under the management of the Association, and there is no complaint from the public or any body on record. Moreover, there is no increase in the number of buses over this route. "