Supreme Court of India

G.T. Venkataswamy Reddy v. State Transport Authority & Ors.

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Reported as [2016] 8 S.C.R. 1
Bench T.S. Thakur, 'fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla, S.A. Bobde, R. Banumathi and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.
Decided 19 July 2016

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the judgment reported in K"m"J"k" SJ(lfe Ro(/d Tmnsport Corpor(lfion, B(/ng(l/ore Vs.

Judgment, page 35

From the headnote

Motor Vehicles Act, 1939: ss.48, 57(8), 63 - Whether on the publication of an approved scheme the number of trips of the vehicles of the existing operators can be increased by granting the variation of a permit even when the existing operators are allowed to carry on their business as on the date of the publication of the scheme - Held: close reading of the sub-section (8) of s.57 shows that an application for variation of any permit in the case of a stage carriage, for the purpose of increasing the number of trips as well as number of vehicles covered by the permit, mandatorily to be treated

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