Carry your original driving licence - HC thumbs up to Govt decision
According to the state, it decided to insist on production of original licences only because of the fact that the state had recorded the second highest number of road accidents in the country.
It also relied on an observation made by a Supreme Court appointed committee on road safety that many motorists were driving vehicles merrily with photocopies of either suspended or cancelled driving licences, to justify its decision.
TNN | Updated: Sep 5, 2017, 01:16 IST
Chennai: Be prepared to get impounded or pay fine if you do not carry your original of driving licence from Wednesday, for Madras high court has refused to interfere with the state government's decision making mandatory for motorists to carry original driving documents.
Declining to pass any order restraining the authorities from insisting on original licence from drivers, the first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M Sundar adjourned to Friday the pleas moved by Tamil Nadu lorry owners association and social activist Traffic KR Ramaswamy assailing the decision of the state government.
On September 1, when the petition moved by the lorry owners association came up for hearing before a single judge, the state government gave an undertaking to defer its decision till September 5.
After recording the undertaking, the judge had directed the registry to tag the writ petition along with the plea moved by Ramaswamy pending in the file of first bench of the court and passed an interim order directing the authorities not to ask for original licences from the motorists till September 5.
Since the pleas were not taken up for hearing on Monday, petitioners requested the first bench to take up the case on Friday and to extend the single judge's interim order till then.
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Chennai: Be prepared to get impounded or pay fine if you do not carry your original of driving licence from Wednesday, for Madras high court has refused to interfere with the state government's decision making mandatory for motorists to carry original driving documents.
Declining to pass any order restraining the authorities from insisting on original licence from drivers, the first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M Sundar adjourned to Friday the pleas moved by Tamil Nadu lorry owners association and social activist Traffic KR Ramaswamy assailing the decision of the state government.
On September 1, when the petition moved by the lorry owners association came up for hearing before a single judge, the state government gave an undertaking to defer its decision till September 5.
After recording the undertaking, the judge had directed the registry to tag the writ petition along with the plea moved by Ramaswamy pending in the file of first bench of the court and passed an interim order directing the authorities not to ask for original licences from the motorists till September 5.
Since the pleas were not taken up for hearing on Monday, petitioners requested the first bench to take up the case on Friday and to extend the single judge's interim order till then.
LATEST COMMENTThis TN state government order is another harresment of Traffic police . What the government could have done in this digital world asked drivers to Register their licence with RTOs of issuing RTO al... Read More Gopalarathnam Krishna Prasad
According to the state, it decided to insist on production of original licences only because of the fact that the state had recorded the second highest number of road accidents in the country.
It also relied on an observation made by a Supreme Court appointed committee on road safety that many motorists were driving vehicles merrily with photocopies of either suspended or cancelled driving licences, to justify its decision.
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