Authorities can take any motion in opposition to aggregators however mustn’t harass particular person bike taxi house owners or drivers, Karnataka High Court clarifies to Advocate-General

The High Court of Karnataka orally clarified to State Advocate General Shashi Kiran Shetty that the court docket, on August 20, had solely requested him to instruct the authorities to not take any precipitative motion in opposition to particular person bike taxi house owners or drivers for working their automobiles.

On August 22, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.. M. Joshi gave this clarification when the A-G complained that aggregators, like Uber, Ola and Rapido, have began providing bike taxis on their platforms though the court docket had not given any such a liberty to them.

“You can take any motion as per legislation in opposition to them [aggregators],” the bench orally informed the A-G whereas reiterating that it had requested the authorities ‘to not harass’ bike taxi house owners or drivers.

An advocate, representing the Bike Taxi Welfare Association, identified to the bench that transport authorities had been seizing particular person bike taxis and taking motion in opposition to the drivers regardless of a transparent instruction from the court docket to not take coercive step in opposition to them.

In response, the bench informed the State A-G that it could actually cross an order in writing to make sure that particular person bike taxi house owners or drivers should not harassed by authorities. Mr. Shetty assured the bench that he would instruct the authorities appropriately.