While issuing notice to the Delhi Government and city police seeking their response by July 8 on App-based cab company Uber’s plea challenging rejection of application for licence to operate in the national Capital, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant any interim relief to Uber.
Hearing Uber India Technology Pvt ltd’s plea that a June 3 order rejecting its licence application be quashed, Justice Mukta Gupta said that the App-based company was not supposed to ply if it did not have any permit.The Delhi Government had cancelled the licence application of Uber for not complying with the provisions of the recently amended Radio Taxi Scheme of 2006.
The amendment was introduced after App-based cab companies were banned in the Capital following an Uber cab driver allegedly raping a finance executive in December last year.The modified scheme imposes various mandatory requirements, including having prefixed calibrated metres, a GPS device and running on CNG, on the companies for grant of licence.
Senior advocate Siddharth luthra, appearing for Uber, said its case was similar to that of two other companies, Apra Cabs India Pvt ltd and Serendipity Infolabs Pvt ltd (Taxi for Sure) whose applications for licence was rejected by the Delhi Government on June 3.