ORDER

1. Ms. Chavan, learned AGP for the State has placed a report of compliance of the directions given by this Court on 7th March 2022. The compliance report is taken on record and marked 'X' for identification.

2. We have read the compliance report together with its enclosures.

3. It appears that upon a notification in the Official Gazette being published on 9th March 2022 calling upon the aggregators to apply for license on or before 16th March 2022, total of 29 applications were received and upon scrutiny of such applications, provisional aggregator licenses have been issued to 12 applicants, whereas 17 other applications are under scrutiny.

4. A copy of the compliance report has been furnished to the petitioner, appearing in person as well as to the other parties.

5. We have heard the parties at some length today.

6. Although the petitioner has sought to impress us that the app formulated by the respondent no.3/4 (UBER) is deficient in certain respects and that the app of OLA, another aggregator, is more customer friendly, Mr. Dwarkadas, learned senior advocate for UBER disputes such contention. According to him, having regard to its own business interest, UBER would not like to la