Judgement

Special leave granted.

2. The appellant was an applicant for a temporary permit to ply a stage carriage on the route Chitradurga to Davanagere and back under S. 68(F)(IC) of the Motor Vehicles Act hereinafter referred to as the Act. It is not necessary to set out the entire history of this case. When the matter came to the High Court, the Division Bench of the High Court set aside the orders passed by the learned single Judge of the High Court and of the Tribunal and remanded the case to the Regional Transport Authority to consider the question whether there was any need for additional services on the route in question. The necessity for applying under S. 68(F)(1C) arose on account of a scheme published under S. 68C of the Act by the State Transport Undertaking of the State of Karnataka in the year 1979 in respect of the said route. When this matter came before us, we called upon the State Transport Undertaking to show cause why the draft scheme should not be quashed on account of the inordinate delay in not publishing the approved scheme under S. 68D of the Act. Admittedly, the scheme has not yet been approved under S. 68D of the Act. No satisfactory explanation has been g