‘Favouring rival company’: Transporter moves court against RTA
Petitioners urged the court to stop the transport authorities from cancelling their permits.
RAWALPINDI:
A private transport company running a wagon service between Raja Bazaar and Rawat has moved a court against the Punjab Transport Authority, for allegedly forcing its vehicles off the road to facilitate a transport company owned by a treasury member of the Punjab assembly (MPA).
The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench is likely to take up the petition filed by Kayani Brothers on Friday. The petitioner has cited the Punjab Transport Authority secretary Capt (retd) Muhammad Yousuf, Rawalpindi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Saqib Zafar and Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Ishtiaq Shah as respondents.
The petitioners stated that they started the wagon service in 2011 and are plying 22 wagons on the route with all required permits, licences, a fare table suitable for the common people. The maximum fare is Rs23 and minimum is Rs13 for passengers plying between Raja Bazaar and Rawat.
A bus service, owned by MPA Shaukat Aziz Bhatti, was started from the TMA building near Raja Bazaar to Gujar Khan in June this year.
To facilitate the bus service, which allegedly lacks a route permit or vehicle registration records with the transport authorities, the district administration has started creating problems for their wagons, the petitioner claimed.
The petitioners expressed the fear that in order to facilitate the MPA, the government functionaries would cancel their route permits and confiscate their vehicles.
They urged the court to stop the transport authorities from cancelling their permits, which are valid up to April 4, 2013, and from confiscating their vehicles.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2012.
A private transport company running a wagon service between Raja Bazaar and Rawat has moved a court against the Punjab Transport Authority, for allegedly forcing its vehicles off the road to facilitate a transport company owned by a treasury member of the Punjab assembly (MPA).
The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench is likely to take up the petition filed by Kayani Brothers on Friday. The petitioner has cited the Punjab Transport Authority secretary Capt (retd) Muhammad Yousuf, Rawalpindi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Saqib Zafar and Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Ishtiaq Shah as respondents.
The petitioners stated that they started the wagon service in 2011 and are plying 22 wagons on the route with all required permits, licences, a fare table suitable for the common people. The maximum fare is Rs23 and minimum is Rs13 for passengers plying between Raja Bazaar and Rawat.
A bus service, owned by MPA Shaukat Aziz Bhatti, was started from the TMA building near Raja Bazaar to Gujar Khan in June this year.
To facilitate the bus service, which allegedly lacks a route permit or vehicle registration records with the transport authorities, the district administration has started creating problems for their wagons, the petitioner claimed.
The petitioners expressed the fear that in order to facilitate the MPA, the government functionaries would cancel their route permits and confiscate their vehicles.
They urged the court to stop the transport authorities from cancelling their permits, which are valid up to April 4, 2013, and from confiscating their vehicles.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2012.