(1) This Writ Petition pertains to certain proceedings relating to the grant of stage carriage permit under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act 1939 (hereinafter referred to as the M.V. Act).

The present 4th respondent applied for a stage carriage permit for plying his bus from Bangalore to via Kunigal via Tavarekere, Magadi and Kempanahalli, and back. As part of the route lay within Bangalore District and the remaining part in Tumkur District, it was an inter-regional route. It was on 14-6-1958 that the 4th respondent filed his application; the substance of that application was published in the Mysore Gazetted Dated 25-12-1958. On 13-2-1959, the application of the 4th respondent was considered by the Bangalore Regional Transport Authority and it was resolved that a permit be granted to the 4th respondent. The present petitioner was one of the objectors before the R.T.A. ; he was an operator on the route Bangalore to Kallur, a portion of which was common with the route for which the 4th respondent has sought the permission. He appealed to the State Transport Appellate Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the S.T.A.T.) against the resolution of the R.T.A. granting the perm