ORDER

Permission to file special leave petitions is granted. Delay condoned.

Leave granted in all the special leave petitions.

2. These appeals by special leave arise from the judgment of the Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court made in W.P. No. 6211/90 and batch, on December 21, 1991. All the appellants are owners of public carriers plying in the State of Andhra Pradesh and registered under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") and the Rules made thereunder. Their vehicles have 3 axles and are called Tauras Vehicles. It is their case that due to change in the size of the tyres of the front axles and the rear axle and the ply rating, the maximum self-laden weight got increased. Therefore, with permission of the Regional Transport Authority they have been plying the vehicles with increased laden weight from August 1988. But after March 31, 1990, they were interdicted on the ground that the weight was in excess of maximum permissible laden weight and maximum safe axle weight and as a consequence thereof their business of transporting goods has been interfered with unnecessarily. As this was being done under the Notification dated June 8, 1989 iss