JUDGMENT

Dr. ANAND, J .:- Leave granted.

2. This appeal is directed against the judgment of the High Court of Madras dated 19-9-1989 dismissing appellants Writ Appeal No. 675/82.

3. The first respondent, a private transport operator in the State of Andhra Pradesh who at the material time was operating his stage carriage on the inter-Sate route Chittoor in (Andhra Pradesh) to Salem (in Tamil Nadu), filed Writ Petition No 4343 of 1980 in the High Court of Madras seeking quashing of the scheme of nationalisation approved under Section 68 (d) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1959 as published in G.O.Ms.No. 579 Home dated 7-4-1975 and for certain other reliefs. The learned single Judge of the High Court allowed the writ petition holding inter alia that the entire scheme as approved, was inconsistent and not capable of implementation and that the writ petitioner (1st respondent herein) was entitled to have his renewal application considered on the said basis. The appellant who had been impleaded as the 3rd respondent in the writ petition, filed Writ Appeal No. 675/82 within the period of limitation. The State of Tamil Nadu, also a respondent in the writ petition, filed a separate writ appeal but