Heard. Fourteen petitioners are persons whose occupation is putting up hoardings and collecting fees for allowing other persons to use the hoardings. They had their hoardings by the side of the roads within the Indore Municipal Corporation Limits. On the direction of the Corporation, they have shifted the hoardings and installed them by the side of Agra-Bombay Road which is part of National Highway No.3. They installed the hoardings at the places indicated with the permission of the Corporation which has granted licence to them. The period offence expires on 31.3.1994. They are aggrieved because before expiry of period of licence, the Superintending Engineer, P.W.D., National Highway Circle, Palasia, Indore respondent No.2 is taking steps to remove the hoardings on the ground that the Corporation has no authority to licence such hoardings by the side of a particular road which is part of National Highway. They have, therefore, filed this writ petition seeking to restrain the respondents from removing or interfering with the hoardings and to direct the respondents to allow them to carry out their business of advertising through hoardings. Second respondents has filed re