SARJOO PROSAD, C.J.—These two petitions are directed against the order of the State Transport Authority dated 29th May, 1961. The petitioners pray that the said order of the said Transport Authority should be quashed by a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ.

2. Petitioners Messrs. Ujagarsingh & sons in one case, and the petitioner Poonamchand in the other, held non-temporary stage carriage permits on the Deoli-Kotah route. As the permits were to expire on 29th February, 1960, the petitioners applied to the Regional Transport Authority for renewal of those permits in the month of November 1959. For various reasons, to which it is unnecessary for us to refer at this stage, the Regional Transport Authority could not dispose of those applications. The petitioners approached this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution for a writ of mandamus and this Court, in D.B. Civil Writ Petitions Nos. 155 and 157 of 1661, directed, by its order, dated nth May, 1961, that the Regional Transport Authority should consider the claim for renewal of the permits of these petitioners and dispose of their applications for renewal within a fortnight from the date of the order. It is relevant

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