Satyanarayana Rao, J.- This is an appeal against the judgment of our learned brother, Subba Rao, J., dismissing an application for the issue of a writ of certiorari to quash the orders of the State of Madras and the Central Road Traffic Board, dated 14th May, 1951 and 10th February, 1951, respectively. Our learned brother, in the judgment under appeal, has set out the facts more elaborately and it will be sufficient to confine ourselves in this judgment to such of the facts as are essential for the disposal of this Letters Patent Appeal.

The appellant, Nadar Transports, Tiruchirapalli, and the third respondents Shanmugham Pillai, were competitors for permits to run buses on two routes, route 1-A and route 8. In the first instance, the Regional Transport Authority issued two permits to the appellant for route 1-A and one to the respondent for the same route and granted one permit in route 8 to the appellant. This order was subsequently cancelled and there was a fresh notification on the 1st October, 1950, in which the number of the buses to run in route 8 was increased from one to two. The Regional Transport Authority granted five permits to the appellant for routes 1-A and 8, i.e.,

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