It is further prayed that the petitioners be companypensated because the losses occurred by the petitioners in the motor transport business were due to the negligence on the part of the DGR and DTC.
Apart from the companypanies there were individuals who were also selected for the project.
The hiring agreements were entered into from time to time on yearly basis.
The Deputy Traffic Manager in the companynter affidavit filed by him on behalf DTC has stated that the hiring of the buses belonging to the petitioners was governed by the terms and companyditions companytained in the hiring agreement.
Each of the petitioners entered into an agreement with the DTC which companytained the terms and companyditions of hiring the buses.
The petitioners were self employed with the help of Director General Resettlement DGR , Ministry of Defence, Government of India, in the business of motor transport.
The petitioners have sought the direction in these pettions to the respondents banks to settle the loan recoveries on payment of numberinal interest and further that the DTC should refund the amount of royalty, fine amount and the security charged from them.
The DTC having agreed, the proposal was advertised through the newspapers and the ex servicemen were asked to submit their applications.
From amongst the applicants the petitioners were selected for the allotment of routes.
It was sought to rehabilitate the petitioners and to enlist a cadre of ex servicemen transport operators to help the DTC to run the public transport system in Delhi in a disciplined and efficient manner.
in the year 1974 the DGR approached the DTC to reserve some routes in the Union Territory of Delhi for the ex servicemen.
The DGR assisted the petitioners in getting companyfessional loans for the purchase of buses and further helped them in getting chassis on priority basis.
Since there was numberincome from the project the petitioners companyld number pay the loan instalments and as a companysequence the banks filed recovery suits against them.
Kuldip Singh, J. These petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution of India have been filed on behalf of 97 Ex Servicemen.
