Balakrishna Ayyar, J.-Krishnaswamy Mudaliar the appellant in W.A. No. 56 of 1956 had a permit which authorised him to run a bus M.D.J. 971 between Vellore and Tiruvannamalai. On 1st December, 1953 the Regional Transport Officer, Vellore, varied the conditions of the permit which Krishnaswamy Mudaliar held so as to enable him to run the bus up to Thanipedi. In effect this gave him an extended route of 20 miles. Similarly Kumaraswami the appellant in W.A. No. 57 of 1956 held a permit which enabled him to operate bus No. M.D.J. 1012 between Vellore and Tiruvannamalai. On 15th January, 1954 the Regional Transport Officer, Vellore extended the scope of the permit so as to enable the bus to be plied along a further stretch of eleven miles to Thandrampet. Being aggrieved by the extensions which the Regional Transport Officer had granted to these two individuals one Pachia Pillai moved the State Government to revise the orders of the Regional Transport Officer. The Government dismissed the revision petitions. Thereupon Pachia Pillai filed two Writ petitions, Nos. 350 and 351 of 1954 in this Court to quash the orders of the Regional Transport Officer and the Government.

Both the petitions we

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