( 1 ) ALL the above writ appeals and the writ petitions raise a common question and may be disposed of by a common judgment.

( 2 ) THE appeals are all directed against the orders of Obul Reddy, J. , (as he then was ). The appellant in each of the appeals in the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, Hyderabad. The petitioners in the two writ petitions and the respondents in these writ appeals are inter-State Operators of Stage Carriage holding the requisite permits. The policy of nationalizing Road Transport Services was extended to some of the Coded Districts. In the instant cases, we are concerned with Chittoor and Anantapur Districts. In order to understand the question involved in the writ appeals and the writ petitions, we will deal with the facts in Writ petition No. 7327 of 1975, the order against which is the subject matter of Writ Appeal No. 374 of 1974. In the rest of the matters before us, the facts are very similar and the legal contentions raised by either party are the same.

( 3 ) OUR learned brother had disposed of Writ petitions Nos. 7327, 7461, 7493, 7459, 7539 and 7636 of 1973 by a common order dated 25-1-1974. In all the Writ petitions, t