Wanchoo, C.J.—This is an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution by Bajranglal and two others against the Regional Transport Authority, Udaipur, in connection with the increase in the number of buses which are to ply on the Shahpura-Zahajpur-Deoli route.

2. The case of the applicant is briefly this.

3. There are three operators on this route and they have been plying buses on it for a long time. On the 26th February, 1957 the Regional Transport Authority, Udaipur, passed a resolution increasing the number of stage carriages from 3 to 4 over this route. Thereafter it invited applications to fill up this vacancy.

4. The contention of the applicants is that the Regional Transport Authority, Udaipur, should have heard them before increasing the number of stage carriages on the route as required by sec. 47 of the Motor Vehicles Act and as it did not do so it should be forbidden from granting an additional permit to any one till it hears the applicants on the question of the increase in the number of stage carriages.

5. The application has been opposed on behalf of the Regional Transport Authority and it has justified the increase on the ground of inadequate facilities for traffic and

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