The Supreme Court docket granted the Delhi authorities additional time till September 30 to finish the motorcar aggregator guidelines governing bike taxis. The court docket has granted the state authorities’s utility on this respect. The Delhi authorities has petitioned the Supreme Court docket to overturn the Delhi Excessive Court docket’s judgment to ban bike taxi providers.
On June 12, 2023, the Supreme Court docket stayed the Excessive Court docket judgment that permitted Uber, Rapido, and different two-wheeler bike taxis to function in New Delhi, thereby eradicating the Delhi authorities’s prohibition. The Delhi AAP authorities has challenged within the Supreme Court docket the Delhi Excessive Court docket’s Might 26 judgment, which had directed it to not take any compelled motion in opposition to bike taxi aggregators till the ultimate coverage was carried out.
The AAP authorities’s petitions had been thought of by a trip bench comprising Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Rajesh Bindal. The bench has given the Delhi authorities till September 30 to undertake and regulate the ultimate coverage. Till then, bike taxis is not going to function in Delhi because of the Delhi authorities’s restrictions.
The Delhi authorities issued a round urging bike taxis to not function within the metropolis. Together with the prohibition, the federal government knowledgeable the bike taxi aggregators that any infringement will end in a punishment of as much as Rs 1 lakh, prompting the aggregators to file a case with the Delhi Excessive Court docket. Total, a judgment on the operation of motorbike taxis in Delhi can be made solely after September 30.