Ranawat, J.—This is an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India. The petitioners Maula Bux and sixteen others are bus operators. They held permits for stage carriages on (1) Sikar-Losal, (2) Sikar-Singrawat, (3) Sikar—Khur, (4) Sikar— Danta Ramgarh, (5) Danta Ramgarh—Losal routes. The Regional Transport Authority with the consent of all the petitioners and respondent No. 13, who was also a bus operator on the aforesaid routes, integrated all the five routes into one by its resolution No. 364 of the 18th and 20th of August 1956. The petitioners and respondent No. 1 3 were allowed temporarily to ply their buses on the integrated route till they were granted permanent permits. The Regional Transport Authority, Jaipur, advertised the integrated route for grant of permits, and published all the applications that they received in response to their advertisement and considered them in their meeting dated the 7th of October 1958. The Regional Transport Authority granted twenty-six permits on the integrated route including seventeen to the petitioners and nine to others. The petitioners went in appeal to the Appellate Authority, but their appeals were dismissed. The Appellate

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