CHANDRA REDDY, C. J.

( 1 ) THESE petitions are filed by several persons carrying on motor transport business in Krishna District for the issue of a writ of certiorari to quash a common scheme No. T6/10/57 dated 5-11-1957 published in the Andhra Pradesh gazette as approved by the Government of Andhra Pradesh in G. 0. Ms. No. 58 Home (Transport IV) dated 7-1-1958 and published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, Part ii (Extraordinary) dated 9-1-1958. The State of Andhra Pradesh published a scheme, for the purpose of providing an efficient, adequate, economical and properly co-ordinate transport service in the public interest to operate the transport services mentioned therein with effect from a date to he notified by the Government. This was done in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 68-C of the Motor vehicles Act as amended by the Act 100 of 1956 which introduced Chapter IV-A into the Motor Vehicles Act of 1939. The transport service specified In the scheme covers all the routes till now operated by the petitioners. The petitioners filed. objections to the approval of the scheme by the Government. They were heard on 26-12-1957 and 27-12-1957 by the Secretary, Home and transport

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