The Karnataka High Court on Friday permitted the operation of bike taxis in the state, allowing a batch of petitions filed by cab aggregators ANI Technologies, Uber and Rapido against the ban on the service, The Hindu reported.
ANI Technologies owns Ola cabs.
On April 2, a single-judge bench ordered all bike taxi services to stop operations in Karnataka within six weeks. The court referred to an expert committee report from 2019, which had considered the impact of bike taxis on traffic and safety.
Unless the state government frames rules and guidelines to permit bike taxis, such vehicles cannot be permitted in Karnataka, the court had held.
The six-week deadline for bike taxis to stop operation in the state was set to expire in May. However, cab aggregators later urged the court to extend this deadline. Accepting the request, the court had allowed Ola and Uber to continue their bike taxi services till June 15.
On June 13, a division bench refused to stay the single-judge bench’s order. However, the court sought the response of state authorities on appeals filed by the cab aggregators against the ban, while rejecting their request to continue interim relief.
The bench said it would have allowed the request had the state government been in the process of framing rules. However, since the government had...
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