Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 163 · Decided 21 March 2002
Subhash Chander and ANR. v. State Transport Appellate Tribunal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 163 · [2002] 2 S.C.R. 685
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2326/2002
- Decided
- 21 March 2002
- Bench
- M.B. SHAH, B.P. SINGH, D.M. DHARMADHIKARI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 80
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: Section 80 ond Clauses 7 and 7-A of the Scheme framed under Section 99. A B c Permit-Operators of mini bus-Grant of-Under liberalised Scheme framed under Section 80-State Transport Undertaking reserving certain routes-Validity of-Held, Main purpose of the Scheme is to and properly co-ordinated road transport service in pub!ic interest-There should not be reservation of some routes on D mere assumption that State Transport Undertaking would operate upon such routes in future-Dominant purpose should be public interest to encourage competition. Clauses 7 and
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