New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- The Supreme Court rapped the road transport corporation of Uttar Pradesh for disallowing permits to inter-state private stage carriage operators from Madhya Pradesh, even as it directed the road transport authorities of the two states to meet within three months discuss the modalities for working out an inter-state reciprocal transport agreement. A bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih observed that courts cannot be "mute spectators" when state transport authorities fail to see the best interest of commuters and passengers. "While we propose to allow the civil appeals and dismiss the writ petition, it would not be in the best interest of the people of the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh ...