IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.18057 of 2009 Date of decision: 30th November, 2009 Majhi Transport Company … Petitioner Versus State Transport Appellate Tribunal Punjab and others … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Nonish Kumar, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Additional Advocate General, Punjab for the State. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL) Present writ petition has been filed seeking quashing of order (Annexure P-1) dated 28th August, 1996 and order (Annexure P-3) dated 24th October, 2008, whereby application of the petitioner for regular stage carriage permit was rejected. The appellate authority took into consideration the following facts: (a) That the proposed route is 172 km in single length; (b) That this route is a monopoly route for State Transport Undertakings; (c) That the private operators can be permitted to ply on the monopoly route only to the extent of 20 per cent or 15 km portion of the monopoly route, whichever is less. It is also evident that State Transport Undertakings had applied for these route permits. Furthermore, counsel for the State has submitted Civil Writ Petition No. 18057 of 2009 that State Transport Commissioner, Punjab had taken the decision regarding grant of route permit to State Transport Undertakings on 28th August, 1996. The appeal was filed in year 2008, after a delay of 12 years. Counsel for the petitioner submits that while dismissing the appeal, the appellate authority had not taken the limitation into consideration. Be that as it may, no ground is made out to cause interference, as there is no infirmity in the orders passed by the appellate authority. Hence, the present petition is dismissed. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE November 30, 2009 rps 2