The Asian Age

PLEA AGAINST OLA, UBER IN COURT IN JULY

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT

A plea seeking prosecutio­n of app-based cab service providers, including Ola and Uber, for allegedly not adhering to rules to raise fares would come up before a Delhi court on July 13. Metropolit­an magistrate Abhilash Malhotra listed the matter for the next date to seek clarificat­ions, after which it would reserve the order on the petition seeking summoning of the firms as accused. The court had earlier treated “dismissed as withdrawn” an applicatio­n filed by the same NGO seeking lodging of FIR against three app-based cab service providers, Ola, Uber and “Taxi for Sure”, holding that the offences alleged in the plea under the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act were “non-cognisable”. It had allowed complainan­t NGO Nyayabhoom­i to lead evidence in support of the complaint under Section 200, CrPC, that these three cab companies were also allegedly violating permit conditions by running vehicles on diesel and providing point-to-point service in Delhi, violating Supreme Court orders. The court has concluded recording pre-summoning evidence advanced by the complainan­t NGO, through its secretary Rakesh Agarwal, in support of the complaint. The NGO has sought recovery of a whopping `91,000 crore from these cab service providers for allegedly not adhering to rules relating to fares and not going by the meters. The NGO has also sought recovery of an additional penalty of `26,000 crore from the firms and jail term for them.

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