https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273692 Renewal of a contract carriage permit had to be decided on relevant statutory criteria, fair procedure and objective material. The SC held that refusal could not rest on irrelevant, untested or undisclosed material, conjecture, hearsay, or bare administrative assertions about existing services or competition. Adverse material had to be disclosed and fairly confronted before it was used against the applicant. As the denial lacked a lawful evidentiary basis and ignored the need to assess public interest on tangible facts, the refusal was quashed and the matter remitted for reconsideration on proper grounds. en-us Wed, 06 Sep 1978 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:44:38 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273692 Renewal of a contract carriage permit had to be decided on relevant statutory criteria, fair procedure and objective material. The SC held that refusal could not rest on irrelevant, untested or undisclosed material, conjecture, hearsay, or bare administrative assertions about existing services or competition. Adverse material had to be disclosed and fairly confronted before it was used against the applicant. As the denial lacked a lawful evidentiary basis and ignored the need to assess public interest on tangible facts, the refusal was quashed and the matter remitted for reconsideration on proper grounds. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 06 Sep 1978 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273692