IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN TUESDAY, THE 23RD AUGUST 2011 / 1ST BHADRA 1933 WP(C).No. 22853 of 2011(F) -------------------------------------- PETITIONER: -------------------- SUHARA, PANCHILIL HOUSE, P.O.KOTTAKKAL, MALAPPURAM. BY ADVS. SRI.K.V.GOPINATHAN NAIR, SMT.G.CHITRA. RESPONDENT: ---------------------- THE SECRETARY, REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, MALAPPURAM, PIN- 676 505. BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI. M. MOHAMMED SHAFI. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 23/08/2011,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: W.P.(C). NO.22853/2011-F: APPENDIX PETITIONERS' EXHIBIT: EXT.P.1: COPY OF THE APPLICATION SUBMITTED BY THE PETITIONER BEFORE THE RESPONDENT DTD. 12/07/2011. RESPONDENTS' EXHIBITS: NIL. //TRUE COPY// P.S. TO JUDGE. Prv. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.22853 of 2011 ----------------------------------------- Dated this the 23rd August, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is a stage carriage operator, operating a stage carriage service on the route Kottakkal - Kozhikode on the strength of a regular permit. The existing timings of the petitioner's stage carriage were settled on 6.5.2008. Pointing out that a vacant time slot has arisen consequent on the surrender of the permit of a stage carriage operating on the route Marakkara - Kozhikode, the petitioner has filed Ext.P1 application dated 12.7.2011 before the respondent seeking a revision of the time schedule allotted to his stage carriage. This writ petition is filed contending that though more than a month has passed thereafter, till date orders have not been passed thereon. In this writ petition, the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondent to consider the request made in Ext.P1 application and pass appropriate orders thereon within a time limit to be fixed by this Court. 2. Sri.M.Mohammed Shafi, the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondent submits that if Ext.P1 W.P(C).No.22853 of 2011 -:2:- application has been received and is pending, the respondent will consider the same and take an expeditious decision thereon, in accordance with law, after notice to the other existing operators. In the light of the said submission, I dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondent to consider Ext.P1 application and take an appropriate decision thereon in accordance with law, if it has been received and is pending, expeditiously and in any event within two months from the date on which the petitioner produces a certified copy of this judgment before him after notice to the petitioner and other stage carriage operators who will be affected by the change of timings sought by the petitioner. P.N.RAVINDRAN, Judge. ahg. P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. --------------------------- W.P(C).No.22853 of 2011 ---------------------------- JUDGMENT 23rd August, 2011