5, which was a new route, it granted a permit to each of the two respondents.
The learned judges who heard the Letters Patent Appeal preferred by the appellant observed, while dismissing the appeal The first respondent had this advantage, viz that he was given the permit by the Regional Transport Authority.
1 preferred a writ petition before the High Court.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated October 23, 1962 of the Madras High Court in Writ Appeal No.
The ground on which the learned judge set aside the order of the Tribunal was that the Tribunal did number state why the appellant should be preferred to the respondent No.
2 was companycerned but set aside its order granting a permit to the respondent No.
Sen, J. B. Dadachanji, O. C. Mathur and Ravinder Narain, for the appellant.
1 in the matter of being given a permit.
Aggrieved by this order the appellant preferred an appeal before the State Transport Appellate Tribunal which held that the appellant should be proffered to the respondent No.
207 of 1962.
Against that decision the appellant has companye up before this Court by special leave.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
An appeal preferred against his decision by the appellant companypany under cl.
V. Viswanatha Sastri and R. Ganapathy Iyer, for respondent No.
V. V. Nair and P. Ram Reddy, for respondent No.
5 in Erode Town.
The Tribunal thus did number interfere with the order of the Regional Transport Authority in so far as the permit granted to the respondent No.
On route No.
5 two stage carriage buses were sought to be introduced.
The appellantas well as respondents 1 and 2 and some others, had applied for the grant of all the six permits, including two on route No.
The Regional Transport Authority at its meeting held on March 16, 1961 companysidered the applications, granted four permits out of six to four existing operators and on route No.
That petition was heard by a single judge of the High Court and, as already stated, the learned judge set aside the order of the Tribunal in so far as the appellant was companycerned.
The Regional Transport Authority, Coimbatore invited applications for the grant of six permits for stage carriage buses for running Erode Town service.
The judgment of the Court was delivered by MUDHOLKAR J. A single judge of the Madras High Court set aside the order of the State Transport Appellate Tribunal, Madras, allowing the appellant companypanys appeal granting them a permit to ply a bus on route No.
Against this order the respondent No.
179 of 1963.
15 of the Letters Patent was dismissed in limine.
May 8.
