In-Short

Case: U.P. State Road Transport Corporation vs. Kashmiri Lal Batra & Ors., 2025 INSC 1281.
Short Caption: The Supreme Court held that a notified route under a nationalization scheme (Chapter VI of the MV Act) prevails over permits granted under an Inter-State Agreement (Chapter V), and private operators cannot ply on overlapping portions.

1. Heading of the Judgment

Case Name: U.P. State Road Transport Corporation vs. Kashmiri Lal Batra & Ors.
Citation: 2025 INSC 1281
Court: Supreme Court of India
Bench: Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Augustine George Masih

2. Related Laws and Sections

The judgment primarily interprets and applies the following provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988:

• Chapter V (Control of Transport Vehicles):
  Section 88: Pertains to the validation of permits for use outside the region and the procedure for formulating Inter-State Reciprocal Transport (IS-RT) Agreements.

• Chapter VI (Special Provisions Relating to State Transport Undertakings):
  Section 97: Definition of "road transport service".
  Section 98: The overriding effect of Chapter VI over Chapter V and any other law. This is a crucial non-obstante c

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