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PETITIONER: VEERAPPA PILLAI
Vs.
RESPONDENT: RAMAN & RAMAN LTD. and OTHERS.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 17/03/1952
BENCH: AIYAR, N. CHANDRASEKHARA BENCH: AIYAR, N. CHANDRASEKHARA SASTRI, M. PATANJALI (CJ) MAHAJAN, MEHR CHAND MUKHERJEA, B.K. DAS, SUDHI RANJAN
CITATION: 1952 AIR 192 1952 SCR 583 CITATOR INFO : R 1954 SC 440 (11) R 1955 SC 233 (21,22) F 1957 SC 232 (19) E&D 1957 SC 489 (16) R 1958 SC 398 (19) R 1960 SC 321 (20,23) F 1969 SC 493 (8) F 1970 SC 759 (3)
ACT: Constitution of India, Art. 226--Order of Traffic Board granting permit to run motor buses to particular person--Application to High Court by rival claimant under Art. 226 for quashing the order and for a direction to grant permits to him--Maintainability-Jurisdiction of High Court to interfere--Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 --Grant of permit--Whether depends on ownership of bus--Discretion of Traffic Board.
HEADNOTE: The writs referred to in Art. 226 are intended to enable the High Court to issue them in grave cases where the subordinate tribunals or bodies or officers act wholly without jurisdiction, or in excess of it, or in violation of the principles of natural justice, or refuse to exercise a jurisdiction vested in them, or there is an error apparent on the face of the record and such act, omissi...