THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P. DURGA PRASAD W.P. No. 1357 of 2000 Dated 11-07-2011 Between: APSRTC rep., by its Managing Director, Mushirabad, Hyderabad and another. …Petitioners Vs. State Transport Appellate Tribunal, A.P., Hyderabad rep., by its Presiding Officer and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P. DURGA PRASAD W.P.No. 1357 of 2000 Dated: 11-07-2011 ORAL ORDER: (Per: GR, J) It is represented by Sri K. Srinivas Rao, learned standing counsel for the APSRTC that as W.A.No. 1245 of 2004 was dismissed as withdrawn by the order of the learned Division Bench dated 11-07-2011, this writ petition must be allowed in terms of the judgment dated 05-07-2004 of the learned single Judge in W.P.No. 2741 of 2000. The present writ petition and W.P.No. 2741 of 2000 are directed against two orders of the State Transport Appellate Tribunal, both dated 21-09-1999 in A.P.No. 367 of 1998 and A.P.No. 366 of 1998 respectively. By the said orders, the STAT allowed appeals of the appellants/private operators, directed against orders of the Regional Transport Authority, Srikakulam dated 26-05- 1998 rejecting their applications for stage carriage permits on the moffusil route Satyavaram to Budithi via Komarthy Junction, Yerabadu, Urlam, Sundarapuram, Raishvalase, Gotiwada and Budithi Junction. The RTA rejected the applications of two operators for grant of stage carriage permit on the ground that the proposed route overlaps the notified route in G.O.Ms.No. 1151 of 1987 whereby the State formulated a scheme on the route Satyavaram Junction to Urlam and Budithi to Gotiwada Junction and the proposed route of the private operators applying for stage carriage permit overlaps the route beyond the permissible limits as per the notified scheme. The STAT allowed appeals of the private operators and the APSRTC aggrieved thereby filed W.P.No. 2741 of 2000 in respect of other operator and the present writ petition (W.P.No. 1357 of 2000) against the other appellant -- Sri P. Appalasuryanarayana (who having died, the 4th respondent is brought on record as his legal representative). W.P.No. 2741 of 2000 was allowed by the order of the learned single Judge dated 05-07-2004 and the order of the RTA was restored after setting aside the order of the STAT. The appeal of the private operator against the order of the learned single Judge has been withdrawn today, in W.A.No. 1245 of 2004. In the circumstances and for reasons alike, as recorded by the learned single Judge dated 05-07-2004 in W.P.No. 2741 of 2000, this writ petition also requires to be allowed and is accordingly allowed. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________________ JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM ___________________________ JUSTICE P. DURGA PRASAD Dated: 11-07-2011 Pvks/*