U. P. State Road Transport Corporation through its Chief General Manager vs Kashmiri Lal Batra

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2025 Supreme(SC) 1883

DIPANKAR DATTA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH
U. P. State Road Transport Corporation through its Chief General Manager – Appellant
Versus
Kashmiri Lal Batra – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Ms. Shobha Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ankit Anandraj Shah, AOR Mr. Arpit Bamal, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Pareek, Adv. Mr. Tarun Arora, Adv. Mr. Gitesh Marwah, Adv. Mr. Shyamal Kumar, AOR Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR Ms. Kanishka Mittal, Adv. Mr. Shrey Kapoor, Adv. Mrs. Upasna Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Upasna Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Deepti Rathi, Adv. Mr. Shadab Khan, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Ms. Shobha Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ankit Anandraj Shah, AOR Mr. Gitesh Marwah, Adv. Mr. Tarun Arora, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Pareek, Adv. Mrs. Rani Chhabra, AOR Mr. Deepkaran Dalal, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Sarthak Raizada Ga, Adv. Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR Ms. Rashmi Singhania, Adv. Mr. Yashraj Singh Bundela , AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Manoj Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv. Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, A.A.G. Ms. Shagufa Khan, Adv. Mr. Aman Prasad, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, AOR Mr. Nikhil Goel, Sr. Adv. Mr. Girish Malviya, Adv. Mr. Rohit Amit Sthalekar, AOR Mr. Grish Malviya, Adv. Mr. Ridhi Jain, Adv. Mr. Prithvi Pal, AOR Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR Ms. Kanishka Mittal, Adv. Mr. Shrey Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Upasna Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Deepti Rathi, Adv. Mr. Shadab Khan, Adv. Mr. Abhay Singh, AOR Mrs. Ankita Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Goel, Sr. Adv. Mr. Girish Malviya, Adv. Mr. Rohit Amit Sthalekar, AOR Mr. Grish Malviya, Adv. Mr. Ridhi Jain, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

DIPANKAR DATTA, J.

INTRODUCTION

1. The MOTOR VEHICLES ACT OF 1939¹ [1939 MV Act] was a legislation dealing with a host of matters of everyday concern related to use of motor vehicles till its repeal in 1988. It dealt with matters concerning various kinds of motor vehicles, its registration, license to drive and operate, insurance, road rules, traffic control, control of public transport, the transport authorities, the necessity to obtain permits, inter-State reciprocal transport agreements, State Road Transport Corporations² [SRTCs] compensation in case of road accidents caused by errant vehicles by a duly constituted tribunal and so on. After almost 60 (sixty) years of its existence, the Parliament introduced the 1988 MV Act w.e.f. 1st July, 1988. The 1988 MV Act is more or less like its precursor but with certain additional provisions to tackle modern day challenges. Spread over 15 chapters, the 1988 MV Act is considered to be a complete code in itself for anything and everything related to motor vehicles. One notable feature of the 1988 MV Act is that it brought about a sea change in the policy regarding grant of permits for plying stage carriages on intra-Region, inte

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2025 Supreme(SC) 1883

DIPANKAR DATTA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIHU. P. State Road Transport Corporation through its Chief General Manager – AppellantVersusKashmiri Lal Batra – Respondent

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DIPANKAR DATTA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH
U. P. State Road Transport Corporation through its Chief General Manager – Appellant
Versus
Kashmiri Lal Batra – Respondent