These Special Leave Petitions have been preferred against the order of the Division Bench dated 8th December, 1986.
Aggrieved by the orders of the R.T.A., the petitioners filed appeals before the State Transport Appellate Tribunal T.A.T. The STAT dismissed the appeals preferred by the petitioners and companyfirmed the order of the R.T.A. The petitioners filed writ petitions in the High Court of Rajasthan, which were dismissed by a Single Judge on 2 1st July, 1986.
Further appeals preferred by the petitioners and certain other operators were dismissed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Rajasthan by its judgment and order dated 8th December, 1986.
On that date, orders were reserved by the R.T.A. The R.T.A., however, passed its order only on 27th November, 1982, about a year after the date of the hearing.
From the Judgment and order dated 8.12.1986 of the Rajasthan High Court in D.B. Special Appeal No.
When the permits were about to expire the petitioners filed applications for their renewal in accordance with the provisions of section 58 of the Motor Vehicles Act hereinafter called the Act .
It rejected the renewal applications of the petitioners and granted permits to the Corporation in respect of the above route.
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2603 2605 of 1987.
L. Sanghi and Mrs. Rani Chhabra for the Appellants.
The three appellants had been granted permits on a route from Bhadra to Hissar via Adampur.
At the same time, the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation hereinafter referred to as the Corporation also moved applications before the Regional Transport Authority, Bikaner, for the grant of fresh permits to it on the same route.
889, 975 and 1135 of 1986.
This route lay both in the State of Rajasthan and in the State of Haryana and was thus an inter State route.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RANGANATHAN, J. Special Leave granted.
The applications for renewal of permits made by the petitioners as well as the applications for the grant of permits by the Corporation were heard together by the Re gional Transport Authority, Bikaner R.T.A. on several dates, the last of which was the 6th of November, 1981.
It may be, as pointed out by the High Court, that the petitioners were vaguely aware of the nature of the general companytentions urged as well as the evidence placed by the Corporation and also tried to put in some documents to companytrovert the material placed on record by the Corporation but they had numberdirect knowledge of such material.
Shanti Bhushan and S.K. Jain for the Respondents.
Appeals are disposed of by this order.
