IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN TUESDAY, THE 22ND FEBRUARY 2011 / 3RD PHALGUNA 1932 WP(C).No. 5431 of 2011(D) ------------------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------------- BENNY GEORGE, MALIYAKKAL HOUSE, CHAKKITTAPARA.P.O., KAYANNA PERAMBRA. BY ADV. SRI.STALIN P. DAVIS AMBATT. RESPONDENT: ---------------------- THE SECRETARY, R.T.A., VATAKARA - 673 101. BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI. BASANT BALAJI. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 22/02/2011,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: prv. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J ........................................... WP(C).NO. 5431 OF 2011 ............................................ DATED THIS THE 22ND DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is a stage carriage operator operating on the route Koorachundu-Perambra-Perambra Estate-Koyilandy on the strength of a regular permit. The time schedule in respect of the said stage cariage was last settled on 3.1.2005. Contending that in view of the time schedule of other services, which operate on the route/sectors thereof, there is clash of timings and citing introduction of other services on the route, the petitioner has filed Ext.P1 petition dated 8.2.2011 before the respondent seeking a revision of the time schedule of his stage carriage. In this writ petition, petitioner seeks a direction to the respondent to consider Ext.P1 and take an appropriate decision thereon within a time limit to be fixed by this Court. 2. When the writ petition was taken up for hearing, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner was not present. Sri Basant Balaji, the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondent submitted that in as much as the prayer is only for a Wpc 5431/2011 2 disposal of Ext.P1 petition, the writ petition may be disposed of with a direction to the respondent to consider Ext.P1 and pass orders thereon with notice to the petitioner and other stage carriage operators, if Ext.P1 has been received by the respondent and is pending. 3. In the light of the said submission, I dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondent to consider Ext.P1 and pass appropriate orders thereon in accordance with law, if it has been received and is pending, expeditiously and in any event, within two months from the date on which respondent receives a certified copy of this judgment. Needless to say, the respondent shall afford the petitioner and other stage carriage operators who will be affected by the outcome of Ext.P1, an opportunity to put forward their contentions before taking a decision in the matter. P.N.RAVINDRAN, JUDGE lgk