IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN TUESDAY, THE 1ST MARCH 2011 / 10TH PHALGUNA 1932 WP(C).No. 6425 of 2011(C) ------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- M.V.GIREESHAN,MAYOTTUVALAPPIL HOUSE, P.O.RAMANTHALI,PAYYANNUR BY ADV. SRI.O.D.SIVADAS RESPONDENT(S): --------------- THE SECRETARY,REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY,KANNUR BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI. BASANT BALAJI. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 01/03/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N. RAVINDRAN, J. ------------------------------- W.P.(C) No. 6425 OF 2011 ------------------------------- Dated this the 1st day of March, 2011 J U D G M E N T The petitioner applied for the grant of a fresh regular stage carriage permit to operate a stage carriage on the route Kawayi- Puthoorambalam-Puthiyapuzhakkara. The Regional Transport Authority that met on 30.11.2010 resolved to grant the permit subject to settlement of timings. The Regional Transport Authority also directed that the petitioner shall provide one more round trip to Kawai. The petitioner submits that though he had produced the current records of the vehicle within 30 days and had also furnished a set of revised timings evidenced by Ext.P3 along with the representation dated 17.2.2011, till date, the respondent has not settled the timings and issued the permit. In this writ petition, the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondent to consider Ext.P3 request and the proposed set of timings and to issue the permit in implementation of the directions in Ext.P1 order. 2. Ext.P1discloses that the Regional Transport Authority resolved to grant the permit on 30.11.2010. Nearly three months have passed thereafter. In such circumstances, if the petitioner has W.P.(C) No.6425 of 2011 2 already produced the current records of the vehicle offered by him and has also undertaken to operate one more round trip to Kawayi, as suggested in Ext.P1, the respondent should holding a timing conference and issue the permit in implementation of Ext.P1 expeditiously. I accordingly dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondent to hold a timing conference and issue the permit to the petitioner in implementation of Ext.P1 order, if the petitioner has produced the current records of the vehicle offered by him within time and has also offered to comply with the conditions stipulated in Ext.P1 that he will provide one more round trip to Kawayi. The timing conference shall be held and the permit issued expeditiously and in any event within six weeks from the date on which the petitioner produces a copy of this judgment. P.N. RAVINDRAN, JUDGE. nj.