WP(C) 1922/2010 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ASOK POTSANGBAM Heard Mr. S.K. Goswami, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mrs. V.L. Singh, learned Government counsel for the official respondents. The petitioners, two in number, are the registered owners of TATA Winger bearing registration Nos. AS-14/C 1967 and AS-14/C 1228. The grievance of the p etitioners is that the aforesaid two vehicles had been requisitioned forcibly by the police for a period of 4/5 days without any prior notice and in complete vi olation of law laid down by this court in W.P.(c) No. 50/2002, which is still ho lding the field in the matter of requisition of private vehicle by the authority . Therefore, the only prayer of the petitioner is that a similar order may be pa ssed in the instant case so that they may not be unnecessarily harassed in futur e. Mrs. Singh learned G.A. appearing for the official respondents has no ob jection to pass similar order of W.P.' No. 50/2002 in the instant case. Accordin gly, the directions given in 1990 (2) GLJ 350 as quoted in WP ' No. 50/2002, are also extended to the instant case. The aforesaid directions are quoted below: No public service vehicle should be requisitioned unless it is required for any of the three purposes specified in section 3 of the Act. Service of notice on the owner must be strictly complied with before the power o f seizure of the vehicle conferred by sub-section (3) of Section 3 is exercised. The period of requisition should be specified in the notice and ordinarily it sh ould not exceed one week at a time. Repeated requisitions of the same vehicle a t frequent intervals should be avoided. That a vehicle once requisitioned under the above Act can not be requisitioned a gain unless the requisition dues for earlier period in respect of the said vehic le are first paid by the authority. The above directions shall be strictly adhered to by the police and other author ity requisitioning the vehicles of the private individuals. With the above observations and directions, this writ petition is disposed of.