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PETITIONER: RAMAN & RAMAN LTD.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF MADRAS AND ANOTHER.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 15/03/1956
BENCH: IMAM, SYED JAFFER BENCH: IMAM, SYED JAFFER AIYAR, N. CHANDRASEKHARA BOSE, VIVIAN JAGANNADHADAS, B. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.
CITATION: 1956 AIR 463 1956 SCR 256
ACT: Road Transport-Power of the State Government to set aside orders of subordinate authorities-High Court’s power to interfere by writ of certiorari-Motor Vehicles Act (IV of 1939), as amended by the Motor Vehicles (Madras Amendment) Act (XX of 1948), s. 64-A Constitution of India, Art. 226.
HEADNOTE: The appellant and respondent No. 2 along with others applied for stage-carriage permits for two routes and the Regional Transport Authority granted a permit for one route to the appellant and for the other route to the respondent No. 2. Both appealed to the Central Road Traffic Board but the appeals were dismissed. Neither the Regional Authority nor the Board recorded any finding as to which of them had the better facilities for transport operation or that they were of equal merit. They applied to the State Government under s. 64-A of the Motor Vehicles Act of 1939 as amended by the Motor Vehicles (Madras Amendment) Act of 1948 and the State Government set aside the orders...