Judgment

D. A. DESAI, J:- The appellants applied for ternporary permits under Section 68-F (1 -C) for plying the passenger vehicles on Klurja-Pahasu-Chhatari-Dabai-Rajghat-Ramghat-Atrauli route (route for"short") which applications came to be rejected by the State Transport Authority and their appeal to the State Transport Appellate Tribunal and a writ petition to the High Court of Allababad did not meet with success.

2. It is a common ground that in respect of the route a scheme has been prepared and published under Section 68-C of Chapter IV-A of Motor Vehicles Act, 1939. The route in question is an inter regional route and therefore an application for temporary permit for the period intervening between the date of publication of the scheme and the date of publication of the approved or modified scheme has to be made to the State Transport Authority under Sec. 68-F (1-C). Ignoring the previous history of the litigation for the present, it may be noticed that the appellants made applications to the State Transport Authority for grant of temporary permits to ply their vehicles on the route. The U. P. State Road Transport Corporation (Corporation for short) also made an application fo