Aggrieved by the order of the High Court the Petitioner has filed this petition.
2063 of 1988 on the file of the High Court of Patna questioning the power of the North Bihar Regional Transport Authority to grant permits on the inter regional routes without a prior agreement between it and the South Bihar Regional Transport Authority and obtained an order of stay of the said proceedings from the High Court on 6th April, 1988 pending disposal of the Writ Petition.
The North Bihar Regional Transport Authority issued numberices to all the persons companycerned stating that the said applications would be taken up for companysideration at its meeting to be held on 7th April, 1988 The petitioner who was operating some stage carriages on some of the inter regional routes filed a writ petition in C.W.J.C. No.
A number of applications were received for the grant of the permits on the said inter regional routes.
The Writ Petition was heard by the High Court on 3.5.1988 and it was dismissed.
From the Judgment and order dated 3.5.1988 of the Patna High Court in C.W.J.C. No.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Special Leave Petition Civil No.
K. Gupta for the Petitioner.
6495 of 1988.
Therefore, in order to satisfy the demand of the travelling public, the North Bihar Regional Transport Authority issued an advertisement inviting applications for granting stage carriage permits in respect of inter regional routes companynecting certain places situated within its jurisdiction and certain other places which are situated within the jurisdiction of South Bihar Regional Transport Authority.
After the opening of the Mahatama Gandhi Sethu companynecting South Bihar and North Bihar by road there was a great need for granting permits to operate stage carriage services between places which are situated in North Bihar and the places in South Bihar.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by VENKATARAMIAH, J. The short point which arises for companysideration in this case is whether without a prior agreement between two or more Regional Transport Authorities through which an inter regional route passes it is open to any one of the said Regional Transport Authorities to grant a permit to ply a stage carriage on the said inter regional route under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 hereinafter referred to as the Act .
2063/88.
When the Writ Petition was filed before the High Court the petitioner did number implead the applicants who had made applications for the grant of stage carriage permits.
