A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar, J.

The writ appeals arise from a common judgment dated 15.03.2018 of a learned single judge, allowing the writ petitions preferred by private stage carriage operators, seeking a consideration of their applications for variation/extension of their temporary route permits, on non-notified routes. The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation is the appellant in the appeals, and they impugn the aforesaid judgment on the ground that the directions contained therein militate against the express provisions of clause (4) of the Scheme dated 25.03.2017, framed under Section 99 of the Kerala Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

2. When the writ appeals came up for admission before us, it was submitted by the learned counsel for the respondents in the writ appeals that, writ petitions have been filed challenging the validity of clause (4) of the Scheme dated 25.03.2017, and as the pleadings in the said writ petitions were complete, the writ petitions were ripe for hearing. As a decision in the said writ petitions will have a bearing on the writ appeals as well, we c