on april 25 1967 the secretary to the regional transport authority shimoga called upon the appellant to produce the relevant documents and the certificate of registration for making necessary entry in the permit.
the appellant produced the same on april 26 1967 and the permit was issued on the same day.
against the order of the issue of the permit respondents 4 to 13 preferred appeals to the state transport appellate tribunal on the ground that the secretary to the regional transport authority shimoga had numberjurisdiction to issue a permit under rule 119 of the mysore motor vehicles rules 1963 briefly the rules after a lapse of such a long time from the date of the grant of the permit.
it may be mentioned that at the time of the grant of the permit the mysore motor vehicles rules 1945 old rules were in force and rule 151 of the old rules was replaced by rule 119 with effect from july 1 1963.
from the judgment and order dated the 9th february 1973 of the mysore high companyrt at bangalore in w.p.
civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal number 481 of 1973.
number 1922 of 1970.
s. javali and b. p. singh for the respondents number.
the appeals of the respondents were allowed by the state transport appellate tribunal by majority on january 29 1969.
it was contended by the appellant before the appellate authorities that there was numberperiod of limitation under rule 151 of the old rules which was applicable to his case for the issue of a permit.
again some of the respondents preferred further appeals to the mysore revenue appellate tribunal against the order of the state transport appellate tribunal.
b. datar and k. n. bhat for the appellant.
it appears however that c numberorder of stay was granted by the mysore revenue appellate tribunal.
this time also the appeals met with the same fate and were dismissed on february 27 1967.
briefly the facts are as follows the appellant was granted a stage carriage permit under section 48 of the motor vehicles act 1939 briefly the act for the route devenagere to shimoga via honnali by the regional transport authority shimoga by its order dated may 3/4 1963.
1 3 13 the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by goswami j. this appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment of the mysore high companyrt number high court of karnataka of february 9 1973 rejecting the appellants writ petition under article 226 of the constitution by which the orders of the state transport appellate tribunal and the mysore revenue appellate tribunal had been challenged.
some of the respondents preferred appeals against the said order to the state transport appellate tribunal and obtained stay of the order the appeals were however dismissed on september 27 1963.
