f HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARM. BILASPUR WRIT PETITION fCl N0.349 of2010 PETITiONER Asgar Ali, S/o Shri Saiyyed Ahmed Ali, aged about 28 years, R/o C-18, Sector-5, Devendra Nagar, Raipur, District Raipur (CG) Versus RESPONDENTS 1 State of Chhattisgarh, Through - Secretary, Transport Department, D.K.S. Bhawan, Raipur (CG) 2 The Regional Transport Authority, Bjlaspur, DJstrict Bilaspur (CG) WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA Appearance: Shri Somkant Verma, Counsel for the petitioner. Shri Arun Sao, Government Advocate for the State/respondents. ^ORALORDER (25.01.2010) SUNIL KUMARSINHA. J. ^Heard finally with the consent ofthe parties. Petitioner-AsgarAli has filed this petition for issuance of necessary direction to the Regional Transport Authority, Jagdalpur (wrongly ment'ioned as Regional Transport Authority, Bilaspur in the writ petition) to consider and decide his application for grant of permit for the route Jagdalpur to Kawardha. According to the petitioner,the appljcation for grant of permit has been filed on 22.10.2009 andno decision has been taken till date. Shri Arun Sao, learned counsel for the respondents submits that ifthe application has been filed by the petitioner for grant of permit and the same has not been disposed oftill date, the Regional Transport A^thority shall dispose of the same at the eariiest in accordance with law. shyna if' W.P.(C)No.349of2010. .0 In view of the above submissions made by learned counsel for the respondents, this petition isdisposed ofwith a direction that ifthe concerned Regional Transport Authority has not decided the applicationdated 22.10.2009 filed by the petitioner for grant of permit for the above route till date, the same shall be disposed of jn accordance with law, as earjy as possible, preferably within a period of 10 weeks from the date of production of a certifjed copy of this order by the petitioner before the said authority. With the aforesaid direction/observation, this petition stands fjnally disposed of. i- Sd/- tsunilKumarSinha c, Judge ;IJ-N ii j