IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 1672 of 2008 Devendra Singh S/o Late Sri Bhag Singh R/o 19, Govind Nagar, Dehradun, District Dehradun. ………..Petitioner. Versus (1) Regional Transport Authority, Dehradun, through its Secretary. (2) Secretary Regional Transport Authority Dehradun. ……..Respondents. Sri Gopal Narain, Advocate for the Petitioner. Sri K.P. Upadhyay, Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondents. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has sought writ in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to renew the permit of Vikram Tempo of the petitioner, as directed by State Transport Appellate Tribunal. (2) Heard learned counsel for the parties. (3) Brief facts of the case are that petitioner possessed Permit No. 1415, issued by respondent no. 1 for running Vikram Tempo. After the expiry of period of the permit it appears that the petitioner sought renewal of the permit at a delayed stage and his 2 application for renewal was rejected. Against said order the petitioner appears to have filed Appeal No. 2 of 2007, which was disposed of vide order dated 28.05.2007 by the State Transport Appellate Tribunal, Uttarakhand, Dehradun (copy of which is annexure 2 to the writ petition). By said order the said appellate authority directed that the petitioner’s permit can be renewed after charging from him necessary fee as provided under sub-section 3 of Section 81 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The said order was not challenged by the respondents. (4) Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that one year has passed since the order passed by said appellate authority but the Regional Transport Authority has not taken any action on said order. (5) Learned counsel for the parties agreed that the writ petition may be disposed of summarily directing the Regional Transport Authority to take a decision on the renewal application of the petitioner in compliance of the order passed by State Transport Appellate Tribunal which has attained the finality. (6) Accordingly, this writ petition is summarily disposed of directing the respondent no. 1 to take a decision on the renewal application of the petitioner in compliance of order dated 28.05.2007, passed by State Transport Appellate Tribunal, within a period of three months from the date certified copy of this order is 3 produced before such authority. (Stay Application No. 6319 of 2008 also stands disposed of). (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Dt.26.09.2008 NS