'Buses Shall Be Seized If Operators Found Picking & Dropping Passengers In Violation MV Act', Rajasthan High Court

Essentially, the public interest litigation has been filed praying that instead of making operational bus-stand at the place donated by the petitioner, as per decision already taken, buses are operating from the main road seriously affecting the movement of the vehicles and also giving rise to apprehension of the accidents.

Acting Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Madan Gopal Vyas, ruled,

"Those bus-operators, who are found picking and dropping passengers in violation of relevant rules and regulations framed under the Motor Vehicles Act as also under the local laws, shall be proceeded against them and the buses shall be seized. This petition stands disposed off accordingly."

The court directed the respondents to ensure that no place other than the place earmarked for the bus-stand is allowed for standing buses and picking up or dropping the passengers. If any such complaint is made by the petitioner or any other citizen to the respondent authorities, the same shall be duly attended to.

The court noted that the compliance report filed by the respondents revealed that the bus-stand has now been made operational from the land given by way of donation by the petitioner, situated at village Shiv, District Barmer.

Further, the court observed that the bus-stand at an ear-marked place was not made operational, the public in general was picking up transport facilities from different places including the busy roads creating traffic problems and giving rise to apprehension of accidents.

The bench opined,

"In the changed circumstances, as the bus-stand at the located place has become operational, we are inclined to dispose off this PIL at this stage."

Adv. Amit Vyas appeared for the petitioner, while AAG Sunil Beniwal with Adv. Saransh Vij, Adv. G.R. Kalla and Adv. Harshit Bhurani appeared for the respondents.

Case Title: Loonkaran v. State of Rajasthan

Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (Raj) 94

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