Appeal from the Judgment and Order dated the 22 2 1971 of Madras High Court in W.P. No.
424 1971.
The latter thus secured an easy arithmeti cal victory over the former and the sense of the scheme would have ordinarily led to the award of the permit to the respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. This appeal, without any merit, deserves to be dismissed without much ado.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The few facts of the case are that the appellant and the respondent, both operators Of stage carriages, applied for a permit on an 86 Km.
However, the Road Transport Authority preferred the candidate with the lesser marks on the companypassionate ground that the rival with the larger marks had already got a permit a companyple of months before, on an overlapping route of 53 Km.
The appellant secured 8.79 marks and the re spondent 12.08.
Marks were awarded to both under the relevant Motor Vehicles Rules to settle their companypara tive merit.
route.
S. Ramamurthi, A. T.M. Sampath, M.M.L. Srivastava and C.Agarwala, for Respondent No.
