IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN WEDNESDAY, THE 23RD MARCH 2011 / 2ND CHAITHRA 1933 WP(C).No. 8529 of 2011(M) ------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- A.J.JOHN, ALUMKAL HOUSE, ANICKAD EAST P.O., KOTTAYAM. BY ADV. SRI.P.DEEPAK RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. THE REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, KOTTAYAM, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, KOTTAYAM-686002. 2. THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, KASARAGOD-671121. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.BASANT BALAJI THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 23/03/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.8529 of 2011 ----------------------------------------- Dated this the 23rd March, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is a stage carriage operator operating a stage carriage on the route Pathanamthitta – Padichira as a limited stop ordinary service. He had applied for renewal of the permit and also for conversion of the service as a super express service. The Regional Transport Authority initially rejected the application. The said order was set aside by the State Transport Appellate Tribunal by Ext.P1 judgment delivered in M.V.A.A.No.279 of 2010. By the said judgment the Appellate Tribunal directed the Regional Transport Authority to grant renewal of the permit as also conversion of the service. This writ petition is filed aggrieved by the delay on the part of the Regional Transport Authority to endorse the renewal of the permit and conversion of the service as a super express service. When the writ petition came up for hearing on 18.3.2011 the learned Government Pleader was directed to get instructions. When the writ petition came up for further hearing today Sri.Basant Balaji, learned Government W.P(C) NO.8529/2011 -:2:- Pleader appearing for the respondents, submitted on instructions that orders have been passed on 1.3.2011 granting the renewal as well conversion applied for by the petitioner and that the competent authority among the respondents will make necessary endorsements on the permit on the petitioner producing the same. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that till date the order said to have been passed on 1.3.2011 has not been communicated to the petitioner. In such circumstances I dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondents to communicate to the petitioner the order passed on 1.3.2011 on the petitioner's application for renewal of the permit and conversion of the service and on the petitioner producing the original of the permit to make necessary endorsements thereon expeditiously. P.N.RAVINDRAN, Judge. ahg. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. --------------------------- W.P(C).No.8529 of 2011 ---------------------------- JUDGMENT 23rd March, 2011