( 1 ) ALL these Writ Petitions involving consideration of common questions of fact and law were heard together and are being disposed of by this common Judgment.

( 2 ) EXCEPT W. P. No. 2157 of 1995, all the Writ Petitons were filed by the A. P. State Road Transport Corporation (for short the Corporation ) aggrieved by the orders of the A. P. Transport Appellate Tribunal, Hyderabad allowing the appeals filed by the private bus operators against the orders of the respective Regional Transport Authorities rejecting their applications for grant of pucca stage carriage permits on town service route at various places in the State.

( 3 ) IN W. P. Nos. 17953 of 1998 and 15538 of 1998, the Tribunal allowed the appeals following the decision of this Court in A. P. State Road Transport Corporation v. C. H. Satyanarayana Raju, (1988) 1 APLJ 119 : (AIR 1988 Andh Pra 341 ). In W. P. No. 1548 of 1995, the Tribunal allowed the appeal filed by the operator following the principles laid down by the Apex Court in regard to liberalisation policy of the Government in Mithilesh Garg v. Union of India, AIR 1992 SC 443. In W. P. No. 17729 of 1990, the Tribunal allowed the appeal on an inte