JUDGMENT :

The petitioner, who is the Principal of Sabari PTB Smaraka Higher Secondary School, Adakkaputhur, Ottappalam, has filed this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, seeking a writ of mandamus commanding the 1st respondent Additional Registering Authority, Ottappalam to endorse the class of vehicle bearing registration No.KL-09/L-8719, covered by Ext.P5 certificate of registration, as Educational Institution Bus (Contract Carriage), without insisting compliance of Rule 125C of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, in the light of Ext.P6 judgment of this Court dated 24.05.2018 in W.P.(C)No.1015 of 2018 and connected cases.

2. Going by the averments in the writ petition, for the conveyance of students, the petitioner purchased a Heavy Passenger Motor Vehicle covered by Ext.P5 certificate of registration on 01.02.2018 from its previous owner. The said vehicle which was originally registered as a stage carriage, on 02.04.2003, and operated as such till 31.01.2018, on the strength of stage carriage permit issued by the Regional Transport Authority,