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Business Line/ - Opinion, Ter, 03 de Abril de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)
No cap on rickshaws in Delhi: Supreme
Court
When there is no cap on number of motorised
vehicles, equally there can be no cap on number of
rickshaws plying in Delhi, held the Supreme Court.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had frozen the
number of rickshaws at 89,000 and refused to give
fresh licences thus making the remaining 4.91 lakh
rickshaw pullers potential violators of law attracting
penalty ranging from Rs 5 to Rs 50 a day.
Sidelining the poor
The apex court while upholding the Delhi High Court
verdict quashing such a ceiling, graphically called the
MCD move an attempt to elbow out the poor and make
room for the rich man's car.
The court pointedly asked if the Government would
impound the licence of a drunken driver who mows
down people and put him behind bars instead of
depriving a poor man of his legitimate livelihood.
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