IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.17998 of 1991 Date of decision: 18th November, 2009 Banda Bahadur Highways P. Ltd, Ludhiana … Petitioner Versus State Transport Commissioner, Punjab and another … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Baldev Kapoor, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Addl. AG Punjab for the State. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL) Counsel for the petitioner submits that the appellate authority had ordered issuance of the route permit to the petitioner and one Libra Bus Service Pvt. Ltd. Learned counsel further submits that the order passed by the appellate authority was assailed by State of Punjab by filing Civil Writ Petition No.10646 of 1991. Counsel submits that aggrieved against the order (Annexure P-1) of the appellate authority, Pepsu Road Transport Corporation, Patiala had also filed Civil Writ Petition No.1166 of 1991, which was dismissed by this Court. The order of writ Court was challenged in SLP and the same was also dismissed by Hon’ble Supreme Court on 12th January, 1993. Counsel submits that once the order of the appellate authority has been upheld, respondents are bound to comply with the directions issued by the appellate authority and regular stage carriage permit be released in favour of the petitioner. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Addl. AG Punjab is not in a position to rebut the arguments advanced by counsel for the petitioner. Civil Writ Petition No. 17998 of 1991 Hence, present writ petition is disposed of with direction to respondent No.2 to comply with the order passed by the State Transport Appellate Tribunal, Punjab (Annexure P-1) and issue regular stage carriage permit to the petitioner, as ordered by the appellate authority, within a period of three months after receipt of certified copy of this order. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE November 18, 2009 rps 2