JUDGMENT

All these writ petitions are connected and therefore, I am disposing of these writ petitions by a common judgment. I will narrate the facts in WP(C) No.16648 of 2021 first. The prayers in WP(C) No.16648 of 2021 is extracted here:

“a. To issue a writ of Certiorari, or any other appropriate writ, order or direction, calling for the original of Exhibit P 3 decision/order dated 30.06.2021 passed in the minutes of the Traffic Regulatory Committee of Omassery Panchayat, Kozhikode district, peruse the same and to quash and set it aside.

b. To declare and hold that the Traffic regulatory Committee constituted under S. 72 of the KP Act, 2011 does not have the jurisdiction or power to pass an order fixing a halting place/vehicle stand.

c. To declare and hold that the power and jurisdiction to provide public landing places, halting places, cart stands or other vehicle stands in a Panchayat in the State of Kerala vests with the authority under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and the Motor Vehicles Rules (Kerala), 1989, in consultation with the concerned authority of the Panchayat and with the Panchayat under S. 227 of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 and the mode and method of such provid