HC refuses urgent hearing of petition on bus fare hike
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: While protests continued across Tamil Nadu demanding rollback of the hike in bus fares, an advocate has approached the Madras high court seeking its interference in the issue.
When a division bench of Justices R Subbiah and T Ravindran commenced proceedings around 10.30am, advocate George William made a mention about the fare hike and sought the court to hear the plea on an urgent basis.
William said the hike was unjustified, arbitrary and made without following procedures. He wanted the court to interfere immediately by passing an interim order restraining the government from collecting the revised fares which are adversely affecting people.
But refusing an urgent hearing, the bench asked the lawyer to file a proper petition which would be taken up in due course.
Another PIL was filed in the court by V Munikrishnan, of Tiruvannamalai, alleging that the government had been spending public money on politics and had shifted the burden to the people, claiming transport corporations face a crisis.
“The fare hike is like adding fuel to fire when people are already put to great suffering by GST and demonetisation,” the petition said.
After six years, the Tamil Nadu government increased bus fares on January 19. Minimum fare on Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses in Chennai has been increased from ₹3 to ₹5 and the maximum from ₹14 to ₹23. In case of non-metros, the hike was in the range of ₹3 to ₹19.
UP AGAINST IT: There have been protests across the state pushing for a rollback of the hike in bus fares
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: While protests continued across Tamil Nadu demanding rollback of the hike in bus fares, an advocate has approached the Madras high court seeking its interference in the issue.
When a division bench of Justices R Subbiah and T Ravindran commenced proceedings around 10.30am, advocate George William made a mention about the fare hike and sought the court to hear the plea on an urgent basis.
William said the hike was unjustified, arbitrary and made without following procedures. He wanted the court to interfere immediately by passing an interim order restraining the government from collecting the revised fares which are adversely affecting people.
But refusing an urgent hearing, the bench asked the lawyer to file a proper petition which would be taken up in due course.
Another PIL was filed in the court by V Munikrishnan, of Tiruvannamalai, alleging that the government had been spending public money on politics and had shifted the burden to the people, claiming transport corporations face a crisis.
“The fare hike is like adding fuel to fire when people are already put to great suffering by GST and demonetisation,” the petition said.
After six years, the Tamil Nadu government increased bus fares on January 19. Minimum fare on Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses in Chennai has been increased from ₹3 to ₹5 and the maximum from ₹14 to ₹23. In case of non-metros, the hike was in the range of ₹3 to ₹19.
UP AGAINST IT: There have been protests across the state pushing for a rollback of the hike in bus fares
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