Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Mar 10: The state High Court on Monday March 9, stayed operation of a government order making it compulsory to fix LPG kits to all the autorickshaws plying in the city.
The government order had made it mandatory for all the autorickshaws operating in the city, registered on or after April 1, 2006, to be fitted with the LPG kit before March 31 this year. The government had issued notification in this connection on October 17, 2008.
Dakshina Kannada Autorickshaw Drivers Association had filed a petition against the said order, in the state High Court. It cited reasons like insufficient number of LPG stations in the city time given is too short etc in the petition.
The HC bench led by Justice Ravi Malimutt, which took up the hearing of the petition on Monday, stayed operation of the government order with immediate affect.