IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 19321 of 2008. Date of Decision: 3rd February, 2009. Budha Institute of Management and Technology ....Petitioner through Mr. P.R.Yadav, Advocate Versus The Haryana Roadways & Ors. Respondents through Mr. R.D.Sharma, Sr. DAG, Haryana. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT. 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? SURYA KANT, J. [ORAL) This order shall dispose of CWP Nos. 19321, 18063, 18983, 18998, 19108 and 19169 of 2008 as common questions of law and facts are involved therein. For the sake of brevity, the facts are being extracted from CWP No. 19321 of 2008. The petitioner is an approved Study Centre of the Directorate of Distant Education, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar. Admittedly, the petitioner is running Courses, like, BBA, M.Com., MCA, BA[MC]. According to the petitioner, the students enrolled with the petitioner Institute are required to attend the Institute intermittently for the purpose of Personal Contact Programme etc. The petitioner Institute, therefore, applied to the respondent authorities for issuance of Concessional Bus Passes for its students to travel in the Haryana Roadways Buses in terms of the Government Policy dated 30.9.1982 issued by the State Transport Department, Haryana. The petitioner's claim has been turned down by the General Manager, Haryana Roadways, Hisar on the plea that the petitioner being an approved Centre for Distant Education, the students enrolled with it are not required to attend the classes regularly. A some-what similar controversy was dealt with by a Division Bench of this Court in CWP No. 13145 of 2005 [Sumit Sharma v State of Haryana & Ors.] decided on 20.2.2006. This Court held as under:- “We are, therefore, of the opinion that merely because the institute was not running regular courses would not disentitle to its students to issuance of concessional bus passes. We accordingly allow this writ petition and direct respondent NO. 2 to issue concessional bus passes to the students who are otherwise eligible for the same”. The respondents have attempted to distinguish the above reproduced order on the plea that the State of Haryana has filed Special Leave Petition [C] No. 12580 of 2006 before the Hon'ble Supreme Court against the same which is still pending. Having heard learned counsel for the parties, I am of the considered view that the reasoning assigned by the Division Bench vide its above reproduced order dated 20.2.2006 squarely applies to the facts and circumstances of the present case and the respondents, thus, can not deny the benefit of concessional passes to the students of the petitioner only on the ground that they are not required to attend regular classes. However, keeping in view the fact that the aforementioned order passed by this Court is sub-judice before the Hon'ble Supreme Court, these writ petitions are disposed of with a direction to the respondents that whatever will be the final outcome of the SLP, the same shall be applied in the case of the petitioners as well. No costs. February 3, 2009. ( SURYA KANT ) dinesh JUDGE