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Court directs Uttar Pradesh to release seized Delhi buses
By RxPG News Service,
Nov 25, 2006 - 2:34:21 AM
New Delhi, Nov 24 - Delhi High Court Friday directed Uttar Pradesh to release all impounded buses of the Delhi Transport Corporation - and asked the two states to resolve their dispute by Dec 1.
It also directed the Delhi government to allow compressed natural gas - buses of Uttar Pradesh to enter the capital for refilling.
A division bench comprising judges Vijender Jain and Kailash Gambhir said if the state governments failed to settle the dispute through talks, their chief secretaries would be present in the court in person to explain the matter on Dec 1.
The directions came on a petition by the Noida branch of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation - seeking directions to the Delhi government to immediately allow its CNG kit-fitted buses to enter Delhi at least for refilling gas.
The petitioner submitted that thousands of commuters staying in Noida and Greater Noida area were facing a great deal of hardship due to the arbitrary act on the part of the Delhi Government.
The present standoff started Nov 16 when the Delhi government barred buses of the UPSRTC from entering Delhi in pursuance of an apex court order not to allow non-CNG vehicles in the capital. The Uttar Pradesh government in retaliation barred DTC buses from entering the state and seized 122 buses.
The petitioner also accused the Delhi government of violating a 2004 agreement permitting it to run CNG-operated city buses to and from the capital.
The Uttar Pradesh government had allowed the transport department of the Delhi government to ply its city buses in the state without permit and the DTC had been maintaining a bus depot in Noida for the past 20 years, the petition stated.
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