JUDGMENT

VENKATARAMIAH, J.:— The appellants are carrying on the business of running stage carriages in the State of Uttar Pradesh. They had obtained temporary permits under S. 68-F(1-C) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) on the route Somna-Naujheel. They could not obtain permits under Chapter IV of the Act to operate on the said route since a scheme published under S. 68-C of the Act in the year 1960 was in force. It would appear that the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) applied for fifteen temporary permits for operating its stage carriages on the route in question and obtained them from the Regional Transport Authority, Agra under S. 68-F(1-A) of the Act as per its order dated 31-1-1984. But the Corporation introduced only five services against fifteen permits. Thus there were ten vacancies. The Regional Transport Authority granted ten temporary permits to ten private operators in those ten vacancies,. One Davender Pal Singh who was holding a nontemporary permit issued under Chapter IV of -the Act filed a revision petition under S. 64-A of the Act before the State Transport Appellate Trib