IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN THURSDAY, THE 10TH DECEMBER 2009 / 19TH AGRAHAYANA 1931 WP(C).No. 34568 of 2009(M) ----------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------------ T.K.VELAYUDHAN, KAITHAVALAPPIL HOUSE, AROOR, ALAPPUZHA. BY ADV. MR.G.PRABHAKARAN RESPONDENT(S): -------------------------- 1. THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, CITY TRAFFIC STATION, KOMBARA, ERNAKULAM. 2. THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY/REGIONAL TRANSPORT OFFICER, ERNAKULAM. R1 & R2 BY SR. GOVERNMENT PLEADER MR. K.C. SANTHOSH KUMAR THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 10/12/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: Kss S. SIRI JAGAN, J ................................................ W.P(C) No. 34568 of 2009 ................................................. Dated this the 10th day of December, 2009 J U D G M E N T The petitioner holds a regular stage carriage permit on the route Perumbalam - Arookutty - Ernakulam - Kaloor as per timings fixed for the same. As per the permit the petitioner is liable to conduct the service through MG road. Petitioner’s grievance in this writ petition is that without endorsing any variation of the conditions of the permit in the permit, the respondents are forcing the petitioner to conduct service through the Kaloor – Kadavanthara road. According to the petitioner, petitioner cannot be forced to conduct service through any route not stipulated in the permit unless such a variation is endorsed in the permit. The learned Government Pleader on instructions admits that in the petitioner’s permit the endorsement regarding conducting to service through Kaloor – Kadavanthara route has not been endorsed. But he would submits that in view of the increase in Traffic inside the city, as a part of the Traffic Regulations, it has become necessary to divert some of the W.P(C) No. 34568 of 2009 -2- services through the Kaloor – Kadavanthara route. But he undertake that no body would be forced to conduct service through Kaloor- Kadavanthara road without a proper endorsement regarding such variation in the permit. This is recorded and the writ petition is closed. sd/- S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE rhs // True copy // PA to Judge