The Supreme Court set aside the order of the Delhi High Court which had stayed the notice of the Transport Department to stop bike taxis. The matter was heard by a bench headed by Justice Aniruddha Bose.
Earlier, on May 26, the Delhi High Court had stayed the notice issued by the Delhi Transport Department to stop bike taxi services. A division bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Nina Bansal Krishna also directed the Transport Department not to take any coercive steps against Rapido and Uber until the policy is formulated.
Aggregators like Uber, Rapido were given notice
In February this year, the transport department had issued a public notice to aggregators like Uber, Rapido and Ola to stop their bike taxi services with immediate effect. The transport department said in the notice “It has been brought to the notice that two-wheelers with non-transport (private) registration mark/number are being used for carrying passengers on hire which is a commercial operation and as per the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 is a violation.
” Rapido and Uber filed a petition in the High Court against the Delhi government’s decision, on which the High Court issued a show cause notice on 21 February. The Delhi government said that the aggregators were running two-wheelers without license and permit.
Delhi government challenged the order
The Delhi government had challenged in the Supreme Court the May 26 order of the Delhi High Court, which had asked not to take any coercive action against bike-taxi operators until the final policy was notified. The Supreme Court on Monday heard two petitions filed by the Delhi government
