Jagat Narayan, J.—This is a petition under Art.226 of the Constitution by Messrs. General Motor Bus Service, Jaipur, against the Regional Transport Authority and the State Transport Authority, Rajasthan.

2. The facts, which have given rise to this petition, are these. The petitioner applied for grant of four temporary permits for plying stage carriages between Jaipur and Kotah on 25th November, 1954, and for grant of four non-temporary permits on the same route on 3rd December, 1954. It may be mentioned that there is no direct service between Kotah and Jaipur so far. Buses ply between Kotah and Deoli and Deoli and and Jaipur. The R.T.A. did not publish the applications for grant of non-temporary permits on account of a direction issued by the S.T. A. by its resolution dated 24th Jan., 1955, asking the R.T.A. to open the Jaipur-Kotah route on a temporary basis to assess the traffic potentiality. It authorised the R.T.A. to issue two temporary permits along the route. The R.T.A., however, maintained that as there was no temporary need, a temporary permit could not be issued,and invited applications for grant of non-temporary permits, by resolution dated 27, 28/29th June, 1955. In resp

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