JUDGMENT :

These writ petitions have been filed challenging show cause notices issued to the petitioners by the Motor Vehicles Department. The petitioners are running pollution testing centres under a licence issued by the Motor Vehicles Department. They have been issued with the impugned Show Cause Notices inter alia on the premise that the centres in question are not conducting tests in conformity with the provisions contained in Rule 115 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules , 1989. The petitioners contend that the show cause notices are liable to be quashed as they have been issued with malafide intentions and are thus without jurisdiction. The petitioners also have a case that without mentioning anything in the show cause notices issued to them, their access to the PARIVAHAN portal where results of testing are being uploaded, has been blocked, effectively stopping the business of the petitioners from 07.03.2025 onwards.

2. The learned Counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that the show cause notices issued to the petitioners in all three cases are identical in nature. It is submitted that they do not contain any specific allegations. It is submitted that the reason for