(1) These are two writ petitions impugning the notification of the Registering Authority published in the daily newspaper Sandesh Jammu on 25-4-1959 specifying certain places in Jammu where the stage carriages could stand and prohibiting them to stand at any other place except the specified places, and further prescribing time for the entry of the vehicles into the city for picking up passengers and load for being carried to different places. These petitions are filed by Bakhshi Tirath Ram son of Bakhshi Guranditta resident of Mohalla Mastgarh Jammu, who is the owner of a stage carriage vehicle No. J and K 6021 which plies on Jammu Poonch route, and by Sardar Avtar Singh resident of Mohalla Mubarak Mandi, proprietor of Avtar Motor Garage, Shalamar Road, Jammu. They have prayed that a writ of certiorari be issued quashing the notification passed by the Registering Authority and directing him not to implement such notifications. Both these petitions will be disposed of by this order.

(2) We will deal with the points raised by the petitioners impugning the notification passed by the Registering Authority on 25-4-1959.

(3) The petitioners have alleged in their petitions that