ORDER :- This is an application for the issue of a writ of certiorari, to call for the records of the State of Madras in G. O. Ms. No. 2224, Home Department, dated 9th July, 1953, and to quash the order passed by the Government.

2. The petitioner originally owned MDQ. 509 and has replaced it now by MDQ. 587. The 2nd respondent herein is the owner of MDQ. 531. Both the petitioner and the 2nd respondent applied for the issue of permits to run stage carriages along the route Kurnool to Anantapur, and they were granted permits accordingly. On 30th May, 1949, the Regional Transport Officer, Cuddapah fixed the timings tentatively. He also directed that the operators viz., the 2nd respondent and the petitioner should run their vehicles MDQ. 531 and 509 on the route Kurnool-Anantapur on a system of daily rotation. On 1st June, 1949, a notification was issued accordingly. It states that the buses should run on a system of daily rotation and that the rotation timings would be given effect from 1st June, 1949, starting with MDQ. 531. On 28th April, 1950, the Regional Transport Authority revised the timings. But he did not in any way alter the prior order fixing the system of daily rotation. On

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