RANJIT GANGULY vs BISWAJIT MODAK — C.A. No. 2682/2002

Summary of C.A. No. 002682/2002 Note: The document provided is actually C.A. No. 2676/2002 (Abdul Hai Khan v. Subal Chandra Ghose), not C.A. No. 002682/2002. Case 2682 was one of multiple appeals consolidated with this judgment. Decision: The Supreme Court set aside the High Court's Division Bench judgment and restored the single Judge's decision, dismissing the appeals by private stage carriage operators. The Court held that since the 1963 nationalization scheme permits private operators (a partial exclusion scheme), existing operators cannot claim monopoly rights or prevent competitors from obtaining permits on overlapping routes. The appellants lacked proper standing as they failed to implead the competing operators and the state undertaking as parties. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.