ORDER :- This is an application for the issue of a Writ of Certiorari to quash the orders of the Regional Transport Authority, Malabar, The Central Road Traffic Board and the State of Madras. The petitioners are the Mannarghat Union Motor Services Ltd. They are plying buses with stage carriage permits in South Malabar since the year 1936. The Regional Transport Authority published a notification R.No.23589 A. 2/49 on 24th February 1949 inviting application for the issue of a temporary permit for a bus on Calicut-Areakode via Feroke and Kundotty. Two persons applied for the permit but the proceedings were dropped as in April 1949 the Regional Transport Officer and Secretary stated that as the Central Road Traffic Board directed the Regional Transport Authority to issue pucca permits for stage carriages in the same route the notification was cancelled. The Regional Transport Authority, Malabar, issued a notice dated 16th May 1949 under Sec.57(2) of the Madras Motor Vehicles Act inviting fresh applications for the grant of stage carriage permits for the said route. In response to this notification, the petitioners and two others applied for permits. It may be mentioned that