IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN WEDNESDAY, THE 20TH JANUARY 2010 / 30TH POUSHA 1931 WP(C).No. 36523 of 2009(I) ------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ---------------------- 1. SRI.B.VENKATESH, S/O.LATE BALARAMACHANDRAN, 6/517(4) VIGNESH ILLAM, 100 FEET ROAD, POST SEKHARAPURAM, PALAKKAD-10. 2. B. SURESH, S/O.LATE BALARAMACHANDRAN, 6/517(4) VIGNESH ILLAM, 100 FEET ROAD, POST SEKHARAPURAM, PALAKKAD-10. 3. B. SREENIVASAN, S/O.LATE BALARAMACHANDRAN, 6/517(4) VIGNESH ILLAM, 100 FEET ROAD, POST SEKHARAPURAM, PALAKKAD-10. BY ADV. MR.G.PRABHAKARAN RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------- 1. THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY-CUM- REGIONAL TRANSPORT OFFICER, PALAKKAD. 2. THE REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, PALAKKAD, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY. R1 & R2 BY SR.GOVERNMENT PLEADER MR.K.C. SANTHOSH KUMAR. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 20/01/2010, ALONG WITH WP(C) NO. 37829/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: rs. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ------------------------------------------------- W.P.(C) Nos.36523 & 37829 of 2009 ------------------------------------------------- Dated 20th January, 2010 Judgment In these writ petitions, the petitioners who are operating three different stage carriages on the route Palakkad-Dhoni seek a direction to the respondents to issue temporary permits pending disposal of the applications filed by them for transfer of permits issued in the name of their later father to them. It is stated that the petitioners have filed W.P.(C) No.36523 of 2009 seeking a direction to the Regional Transport Authority, Palakkad to pass orders on their applications for transfer of permits. When W.P.(C) No.37829 of 2009 came up for admission today, Sri.G.Prabhakaran, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that the Regional Transport Authority has transferred the permits and also issued temporary permits and therefore, this writ petition and W.P.(C) No.36523 of 2009 have become infructuous. In the light of the said submission, W.P.(C) No.36523 of 2009 was called for. Both writ petitions are dismissed as infructuous recording the W.P.(C) Nos. 36523 & 37829/2009 2 submissions made by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners that the reliefs sought in the writ petitions have become infructuous. P.N.RAVINDRAN Judge vaa