(B) Practice & Procedure - Constitution - Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 89 – Constitution of India, 1950, art. 226 - Alternative remedy – Availability of – Held, petitioner has got an effective alternative remedy u/s. 89 of the Act against the impugned order passed by the 1st respondent/Regional Transport Authority, however, petitioner has come forward with the present petition without exhausting the alternative remedy – HC cannot exercise its extra-ordinary jurisdiction u/art. 226 of the Constitution of India when there is an effective alternative remedy of appeal available – Petition dismissed.

(B) Practice & Procedure – License – Grant of – Interference by HC – Held, HC should not encroach into the domain of the executive more so with their power to grant licences - However, when a statutory authority fails to exercise its jurisdiction or fails to perform a statutory function, the arms of HC are long enough to direct such authority to perform their statutory duty - Petitions disposed of.

(B) Education - National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition Norms and Procedures) Regulations, 2007 – Admission to D.T.Edu course – Basic educational qualification – Requirement of – Held, Government has fixed the educational qualifications in consonance with the Regulations – Therefore, students who have less than the minimum marks prescribed and whose admission was not approved, cannot say that they were not aware of the stipulations regarding the eligibility criteria for admission – Petition allowed.

(B) Administrative – Decision of public authority – Nature and Scope – Held, any decision rendered by a public authority is not the decision of the incumbent occupying the chair, but the decision of the Office which he holds and such decision would not lose its sanctity or power or authenticity, when the individual who passed the earlier order demits the office - However, revisional powers are conferred on the authorities to correct the illegalities or irregularities committed, subject to certain limitations imposed by law – Petition allowed.

(B) Practice & Procedure – Respondent in writ petition – Entitlement of relief – Held, respondent cannot seek the relief in a writ petition which is filed by another party – Petition dismissed.

(B) Labour & Industrial Law – Order of reinstatement – Decision of SC in State of Karnataka v. Umadevi, 2006 INDLAW SC 125 – Applicability of – Held, person engaged on contract basis are entitled to regularisation if his termination is illegal – Once the termination is held to be in violation of the provisions, the Labour Courts are empowered to issue positive directions to an erring employer - Appeal dismissed.

(C) Practice & Procedure – Finding of fact by Labour Court – Interference by HC – Held, when the finding of the Labour Court is based upon analysis of oral and documentary evidence, the HC would not interfere with the findings of fact unless shown to be perverse – Appeal dismissed.

(B) Constitution – Practice & Procedure - Right to Information Act, 2005 – Writ petition against the order of Information Commissions – Joinder of parties – (obiter) whenever a person challenges the order of the State or Central Information Commission, it is not necessary to make the Commission a party to the writ petition - Commission is a statutory appellate authority and is expected to function within the four corners of the Act and if its orders are under challenge, the Commission is not expected to defend it - If the Commission is made as a party, it would be an unnecessary drain on the Commission to engage counsel to defend its orders – Further, Commission's orders are challenged by the Government departments or information officers at the expense of the Government – Petitions partly allowed.