( 1 ) THIS petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India was filed in october, 1976 and was admitted for final hearing by a Division Bench on 2-111976.

( 2 ) BY this petition, the petitioner-Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport corporation claims writ quashing the order made by the Regional Transport authority, Jabalpur granting extension of route under the stage carriage permit held by respondent No. 2, The application for grant of extension was duly published and the petitioner filed an objection to the grant of extension on the ground inter alia that the proposed extension on Mandla-Jabalpur route forms part of the exclusive route as specified under scheme No. 8, the approved scheme for nationalisation and as such the grant of extension was in violation of the aforesaid approved scheme under Chapter IV-A of the Motor Vehicles act, 1939. However, according to the Regional Transport Authority, the provisions of the scheme, as construed, did not make the route in question an exclusive route and therefore, the extension sought for was granted subject to the condition that respondent No. 2 shall not pick up or set down passengers between certain portions of the ro