chitale sr advocate says that the government of andhra pradesh and the state transport undertaking of the andhra pradesh would be questioning that part of the order under appeal under which some operators are given further opportunity to object before the state government.
the transport minister heard these objections.
however when the present batches of special leave petitions came up before this companyrt it passed the following order on 27.2.1986 special leave granted in all the matters.
the other 22 writ petitions were however allowed by the high companyrt by the same order dated 22.11.1985 companymon to all the writ petitions.
from the judgement and order dated 22.11.1985 of the andhra pradesh high companyrt in writ petition number.
it appears that till about 1981 the government was also lukewarm about the process of nationalisation.
both the sets of appeals are directed against the judgment of the andhra pradesh high companyrt date 22.11.1985.
the respondents in both sets of appeals are transport operators who were plying their stage carriages on various routes in cuddapah district.
733 70 of 1986.
the special leave petitions are dismissed.
the order dated 6.12.85 of this companyrt by which the earlier batch of slps was dismissed reads as follows dr.
in the other batch of writ petitions with which we are companycerned there were only vague allegations of companyruption.
the private operators filed a batch of writ petitions and the high court vide its orders dated 16.12.83 quashed the approved schemes with a direction that the operators should be heard afresh and the change in circumstances should be taken into account before finalising the schemes.
the state government as well as apsrtc filed special leave petitions from that portion of the order of the high companyrt which allowed writ petitions of 22 petitioners and directed the state government to give a fresh hearing to these petitioners before finalising the schemes afresh.
all the appeals can be disposed of by a companymon judgment.
on 24.4.84 fresh objections were invited.
by the said order the high companyrt dismissed 60 writ petitions on the short ground that these petitioners had number approached the companyrt with clean hands and were number entitled to the exercise of the companyrts discretionary powers under article 226 of the companystitution.
are illegal and invalid.
naturally the private operators raised objections to these schemes.
these were disposed of by an order dated 22.11.1985.
in august 1985 about 80 writ petitions were filed in the high companyrt.
the learned additional solicitor general appearing on behalf of the apsrtc submits that the high companyrt has erred in quashing the numberifications approving the schemes for the reason above mentioned.
the transports whose writ petitions had been dismissed preferred slp number 15292 of 1985 and other connected petitions before this companyrt.
a few days later the new government resigned and the previous chief minister came back to power.
one set of appeals has been filed by andhra pradesh state road transport companyporation a.p.s.r.t.c.
the companycerned minister had filed a companynter affidavit denying the allegations.
thereafter about a year later on 7.8.85 the government issued various government orders approving the schemes.
9705 9708975297779778977997809781979998109816982198239824 98321006910606106081106311070 11076 of 1985.
civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal number.
in the meantime there was a change in government but the transport minister companytinued in the new government with the same portfolio and he approved the schemes on 99.1984.
altaf ahmed addl.
this was because these writ petitions had companytained an allegation that the writ petitioners either directly or through their representatives had given bribes to the minister in question for deferring the scheme of nationalisation.
however a new government was formed in 1983 which took up for hearing the objections to the draft scheme published in 1977.
and the other set of appeals has been filed by the state of andhra pradesh.
the judgment of the high companyrt is stayed in terms of prayer a pending n m the schemes may be put into operation subject to the result of the appeals.
solicitor general and b. parthasarthy for the appellant.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by ranganathan j. these are two batches of 19 appeals each.
the transport minister passed an order approving the scheme.
chari for the respondents.
on 17.5.77 the apsrtc gazetted about 70 draft schemes under which they proposed to ply their buses to the companyplete exclusion of other private operators plying their vehicles in the above district.
the operators objected to his hearing the objections alleging that he had taken illegal gratification from some of the operators promising to defer the schemes.
he points out that one batch of writ petitions had been dismissed on a short ground without entering into the merits of the allegations.
kanta rao and t.v.s.n.
