The Chief Justice.-These two applications are connected and relate to the same matter. The petitioner in the two applications is one T.E. Ebrahim Sahib. He is the lessee of a site in Ward No. 6 in Tanjore Town which has been used as a bus stand in accordance with licences granted from time to time by the Tanjore Municipality. The stand is situated near the railway station and it is common ground that from several years past it has been the only bus stand in the town and it has been the place from and at which all bus traffic to and from places such as Kumbakonam, Pattukottai, Tiruvayar, etc., was starting and terminating. Sometime in 1947, there appears to have been a complaint that the bus stand was narrow and inconvenient and thereupon the Municipality discussed a proposal to construct a new bus stand at another suitable place. The Regional Transport Authority also appears to have convened meetings to consider the question of shifting the bus stand, but the subject was dropped in May, 1948. Subsequently there appear to have been again complaints and at the instance of the Tanjore Municipality, the Government passed G.O. No. 231 on 19th January, 1950, directing the Regional Transp

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