CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioners in these four applications under Article 226 of the Constitution are owners of Motor Vehicles hired from time to time as contract carriages. They contend that hitherto they used to apply for the grant of special per-mite under Section 63 (6) of the Motor Vehicles Act in the prescribed form PTOVA and that special permits used to be granted in the prescribed form PTOV. Neither the rules nor the prescribed forms require them to furnish the names of all the passengers who propose to utilize the contract carriage under the special permit. It was never considered necessary. Recently the Regional Transport Authorities of the District of Krishna, Kurnool, Guntur and West Godavari, have started insisting on the applicants for special permits submitting along with the applications for special permits complete lists of passengers proposed to be carried by the contract carriages under the special permits to be issued. The petitioners object to the insistence of the Transport Authorities to furnish a list of passengers. They have filed these applications under Article 226 of the Constitution to direct the Transport Authorities not to insist on the petit

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