ORDER :- By its order dated 24-5-1960 the Tribunal set aside the grant of a single permit to the petitioner and granted the same to the first respondent. The route is An-namalainagar to Kothamchari, which is a short route. This petition is to quash the Tribunals order.

2. The only point argued by Mr. Mohan Kumaramangalam for the petitioner is that the first respondent having applied for a permit as a firm but during the pendency of its appeal before the Tribunal, the firm having been dissolved by one of the two partners going out of it, the appeal became infructuous.

3. The argument so addressed is based on the assumption that the application was by a firm. Though it does not appear to have been noticed by either the Regional Transport Authority or the Tribunal and the parties proceeded on the footing that the application was by the firm Balasubramaniam and Co. on the actual verification of the original application it is found that the application was by M. Balasubramaniam, son of A. R. Muthiah Pillai. Whether the application was by a firm or by an individual will have to be decided by the terms themselves of the application. The form of the application should be as prescrib