1. Since common question of law and fact is involved in these writ petitions, they are heard analogously and are being decided by this common order.
(For the sake of convenience, W.P. (Art. 227) No.653/2014 is taken as lead case.)

2. Respondent No.2 had made an application for grant of stage carriage permit in a route from Rajnandgaon to Bailadila via Durg, Raipur, Abhanpur, Dhamtari, Kanker, Kondagaon and Jagdalpur, which was rejected by the learned Regional Transport Authority by order dated 17-7-2009; questioning that order, the said respondent preferred an appeal before the State Transport Appellate Tribunal (STAT) and the STAT by order dated 9-3-2011 allowed the appeal holding that the Regional Transport Authority has no jurisdiction to fix the time limit for frequency of buses. Questioning that order, the petitioners herein preferred writ petitio