The Nainital High Court has served notices to the members of Regional Transport Authority (RTA) on a contempt petition for not following its orders on designated routes for contract carriage vehicles.
The RTA in its meeting on September 10 this year had proposed new route permits for contract carriages like maxi and taxi cabs. On a petition of a private bus owner, the HC issued stay on designation of new routes on September 26.
The president of city buses union Vijay Vardhan Dandriyal lodged a deflation petition in the HC in which he alleged that despite the stay orders of HC the Chairman, members and secretary of RTA issued a Press release on November 5 in which applications from the contract
carriages for new routes was invited. While disposing the defamation petition the HC has served notices to Chairman of RTA C S Napalchiyal, members Ramesh Butola and Arivind Sharma and Secretary Dinesh Chandra Pathoi. In the notice the HC has given them a time period of three weeks for filing their reply.