IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN WEDNESDAY, THE 30TH MARCH 2011 / 9TH CHAITHRA 1933 WP(C).No. 5412 of 2011(B) ------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- K.ABOOBACKER, S/O.MAMMED, KODALIPULIKOTTIL HOUSE, PULPATTA P.O., (VIA) MANJERI, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.G.HARIHARAN SRI.PRAVEEN.H. RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, PALAKKAD, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, PIN 678001. 2. SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, PALAKKAD, PIN 678001. BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI.M.A.ASIF. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 30/03/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: APPENDIX IN WP.(C) NO.5412 OF 2011 EXT.P1 TRUE COPY OF THE JUDGMENT MADE IN W.P.(C) NO.2819/2009 DATED 28.1.2009. EXT.P2 TRUE COPY OF THE JUDGMENT MADE IN W.P.(C) NO.9457 OF 2010 DATED 25.3.2010 EXT.P3 TRUE COPY OF THE DECISION MADE IN ITEM NO. 15 OF THE MEETING HELD ON 6.7.2010 OF RTA, PALAKKAD. EXT.P4 TRUE COPY OF THE PROCEEDINGS MADE IN ITEM NO.191 DATED 22.12.2010 OF SECRETARY RTA, MALAPPURAM. //TRUE COPY// P.A. TO JUDGE. P.N. RAVINDRAN, J. ------------------------------- W.P.(C) No. 5412 OF 2011 ------------------------------- Dated this the 30th day of March, 2011 J U D G M E N T The petitioner applied for a fresh regular permit to operate a stage carriage on the route Koppam – Tirur, an inter district route. Initially the application was rejected. But pursuant to the directions of the State Transport Appellate Tribunal, the Regional Transport Authority, Palakkad reconsidered the application. On noticing that concurrence of the Regional Transport Authority, Malappuram is required, the Regional Transport Authority, Palakkad that met on 6.7.2010 resolved to seek the concurrence of the Regional Transport Authority, Malappuram. The Regional Transport Authority, Malappuram thereafter granted concurrence by Ext.P4 proceedings dated 22.12.2010. This writ petition was thereupon filed on 18.2.2011 contending that the application submitted by the petitioner has not been included as an item in the agenda for the meeting scheduled to be held on 21.2.2011 by the Regional Transport Authority, Palakkad. The relief sought in this writ petition is for a direction to the first respondent to include the application of the petitioner as an item in the agenda for the meeting scheduled to be held on 21.2.2011. 2. Sri.M.A.Asif, the learned Government Pleader appearing for the official respondents submitted on instructions that the W.P.(C) No.5412 of 2011 2 petitioner's application was not included as an item in the agenda for the meeting held on 21.2.2011 for the reason that the original of Ext.P4 proceedings had not been received by the Regional Transport Authority, Palakkad before the agenda was prepared. The learned Government Pleader also submitted that the petitioner's application will be included as an item in the agenda for the next meeting of the Regional Transport Authority, Palakkad. In the light of the said submission, I dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the first respondent to include the petitioner's application for grant of a regular permit as an item in the agenda of the next meeting of the Regional Transport Authority, Palakkad and to take a decision on the petitioner's application at that meeting itself. The competent authority among the respondents shall in the event of the permit being granted, settle the timings and issue the permit within six weeks from the date of the grant. P.N. RAVINDRAN, JUDGE. nj.