NEW DELHI, July 31:
The Delhi High Court today directed the city Government to stop e-rickshaws from plying on the roads of the national capital “as of now”. “Stop it as of now,” a bench of justices B D Ahmed and S Mridul said, while observing that “unregulated plying of vehicles on Delhi roads is prima facie a hazard to other traffic on road as well as the citizens”.
“You (Delhi Government) say it is illegal. You stop them (e-rickshaws) in the meantime, till a law is framed to regulate them. You can’t allow them to take law into their hands,” the court said. The court directed, “Respondents (city Government and authorities) will forthwith take steps to prevent plying of erickshaws without fail”.
During the brief proceedings, advocate Zubeda Begum, appearing for the city Government, submitted that as per a letter received from Ministry of Road Transport and Highway, the Government is proposing to amend the Motor Vehicles Act to the extent that it will take erickshaws out of the ambit of the legislation.
“Local bodies will then frame rules to regulate the erickshaws,” Zubeda said while referring to the letter. (PTI)
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