The Delhi high court today asked the app-based cab service provider Uber to apprise it of the number of the new diesel taxis it has added to its fleet after court’s order that no diesel-based cabs will be included by taxi service providers.
“File an affidavit with respect to new diesel taxis you have added for carrying passenger from point-to-point basis within Delhi from 6 November, 2015 (high court’s order) to till date,” said Justice JR Midha, and posted the matter for 4 March.
The court was hearing a contempt of court plea filed by Ola cabs against Uber claiming that Uber has been flouting court’s earlier directives and is still adding and plying diesel vehicles in Delhi.
The court last year had made it clear that it was not going to allow diesel vehicles to ply point-to-point services in the capital, and asked Uber to operate on the condition that it shifts its fleet entirely to CNG from diesel in Delhi by March.
Ola Cabs moved the court seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings against top officials of Uber, saying Uber was still allowing, from its platform, plying of diesel-based cabs and has not phased out these vehicles, despite its commitment to the court.
“Uber not only continue to use diesel taxis for both within and outside the Delhi but have also continues to add new diesel taxis to their platform for providing point-to-point services within Delhi,” contended senior advocate Aman Lekhi appearing for Ola.
The new diesel taxis added are taking trips within Delhi, in clear defying of undertaking given by it to the court and and orders of the court, Lekhi added.
Senior advocate Rajiv Nayar appearing for Uber denied the allegations.
The court also asked Ola cabs to file an affidavit in support of the documents the company has annexed with the petition which claimed Uber has added diesel-taxis in its fleet.
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Consider this as intervention. I don't think anybody reading this blog gives even a second of their life thinking about who asked which judge to order Uber how many diesel cars have been added! C'mon. This blog has to be better than this. Tell us something about some constitutional matter which would actually affect our lives/tell us about increasing or decreasing standards in law schools and the thug lawyers they churn out/ tell us about the fancy moot competitions our students are participating and winning (where is JESSUP news?). I am seriously considering of just switching to Livelaw or Bar and Bench if this trend continues?
Bar and Bench is a parallel platform and indeed a good one. But they are now a paid service. Thank God for Legally India!
I'm with both of you 'seriously' and 'O please'.
LI's problem is that we've grown a lot beyond our original remit of mostly law firm news, to now also cover a lot of litigation, for instance.
I hope to do a survey soon to figure out what different readers want exactly.
Are any corporate law firm lawyers interested in day-to-day litigation at all?
Are any litigators interested in corporate law firm news at all?
Who's interested in student news?
For the time being there are several options: in the top menu, there are 3 different landing pages that prioritise law firm / bar / student news respectively.
Plus, on the main homepage, you can choose to hide certain stories (such as all litigation stories) with the big blue button.
Have any of the above been useful? Any thoughts at all on any of the above?
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