SACHAR, J.—By this petition under Article 226 the petitioner challenges the impugned resolution of the Regional Transport Authority, Udaipur respondent 2 dated 28.6.76 granting a temporary stage carriage permit in favour of respondent 3 as well as the order dated 2.8.76 of the State Transport Appellate Tribunal respondent I which rejected the revision of the petitioner as not maintainable.

2. There is a route known as Bhilwara-Jahazpur via Bigod-Kachola diversion via Begod Mandalgarh. Originally the scope fixed on this route was of 3 stage carriages to perform 2 return trips. The Regional Transport Authority sought to increase it to 5 stage carriages to perform 3 return trips in the year 1970 but a revision against that was allowed by the State Transport Appellate Tribunal which maintaining the increase of return trips to 3 but reduced the increased scope of stage carriages from 8 to 4. The scope thus fixed on the route came to be 4 stage carriages to perform 3 return trips. One of the existing operators on this route filed a petition being Civil Writ No. 1879 of 74 in this Court with the result that no non-temporary stage carriage permit was granted by the Regional Transport Author

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