1. The petitioner in all these Writ Petitions is the Mysore State Road Transport Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation). These writ petitions are directed against several orders of the Mysore Revenue Appellate Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal), allowing the appeals filed by Respondent - 1 in each of these Writ Petitions against the orders of the Mysore State Transport Authority (hereinafter referred to as M.S.T.A.) renewing the permits to ply the stage carriages concerned, under S.58 of the Motor Vehicles Act. 1939, for a period of 3 years only, even though the first respondent in each of these petitions had applied for renewal of such permits for a period of 5 years.

2. The ground on which the Corporation has filed these Writ Petitions is that no appeal was maintainable against the orders of M.S.T.A. renewing a permit, even though the period specified in each case was 3 years as against the period of 5 years prayed for by respondent - 1 in each case, in view of the language of S.64(e) of Motor Vehicles Act. The relevant part of S.64 reads as follows: -
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