IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.818 of 2008 BHUNESHWAR PRASAD SINGH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the Petitioner : M/s. Randhir Kr. Singh & Sanjay Kumar Pandey For the Respondents: Mrs. Nilu Agrawal, G.A. 10 ------------ P R E S E N T Hon'ble the Chief Justice & Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ghanshyam Prasad ------------ Dated, the 10th July, 2008. In the present writ petition the petitioner seeks that the North Bihar Regional Transport Authority, Muzaffarpur be directed to stop operation of Bus bearing registration no. BR-06P-9921. The contention is that the vehicle of respondent no. 5 being tax defaulter, no permit could have been granted by the Regional Transport Authority. 2. We are afraid, it virtually amounts to questioning the legality and correctness of the permit granted by the North Bihar Regional Transport Authority which cannot be permitted bypassing the statutory remedy of appeal, provided under section 89 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. 3. The writ petition is dismissed accordingly. 4. This will not preclude the petitioner to assail the permit granted by the North Bihar Regional Transport Authority in respect of vehicle BR-06P-9921 before the statutory appellate - 2 - authority. If by this time the appeal has become time barred, then it is for the appellant to make out a case for condonation of delay in filing the appeal. R. M. Lodha, CJ Ghanshyam Prasad, J AMIN/-