Supreme Court of India

A. S. T. Arunachalam Pillai v. M/s. Southern Roadways (private) Ltd.

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Reported as [1960] 3 S.C.R. 764
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 29 April 1960

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In the result the appeal fails and is dismissed with costs, Appeal dismissed. --

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Motor Vehicles-Stage carriage permits, variation of-] urisdic­ tion of Regional Transport Officer-State Government's power of revision-Motor Vehicles Act, I939 (4 of I939l. as amended by the Madras Act, 2oof I948, ss. 44A, 64A. The question for decision in this appeal was whether the Regional Transport Officer under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, as amended by the Madras State Legislature, had the power to vary the terms of a stage carriage permit granted under that Act. The appellant, holder of a stage carriage permit, applied on July t9, 1954, to the Regional Transport Officer for a

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