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PETITIONER: V.C. K. BUS SERVICE LTD.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, COIMBATORE
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 19/02/1957
BENCH:
ACT: Road Transport-Permit for stage carriage-Rerewal-Whether a continuation of the original Permit-Whether subject to implied condition of validity of the original Permit-Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV Of 1939), ss. 57, 58.
HEADNOTE: The appellant was granted a permit for stage carriage by the Regional Transport Authority under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, but on appeal to the appellate authority, the Central Road Traffic Board, by the unsuccessful applicants the order granting the permit was set aside and the order of the Central Road Traffic Board was approved by the Government in revision. The appellant, thereupon, moved the High Court for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the Central Road Traffic Board and the Goverment. During the pendency of these proceedings there was a stay of operation of the order setting aside the grant of the permit to the Appellant, with the result that be continued to run his buses notwithstanding the cancellation of his permit. Before the expiry of the period fixed in the original 664 permit, he applied for and got a renewal of the permit from the Regional Transport Authority under s. 58 of the Act. The High Court finally dismissed the application...