New bench to hear BRT plea
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03/09/2012
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Times Of India (New Delhi)
New Delhi: A PIL challenging the BRT corridor was transferred to a fresh bench on Monday. Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri transferred the PIL to another bench, which will now hear the plea seeking permission for cars to use a lane reserved for buses on the corridor.
Justice Sikri, who has been elevated as the new Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, sent the matter to a fresh bench saying the plea required urgent hearing and posted the matter for September 10. “This matter requires urgent hearing. As it is not possible to hear the matter and grant urgent hearing, let the matter be posted before another bench on September 10,” the court said. HC had earlier fixed September 3 and 4 for final arguments.
The 5.8km stretch of BRT corridor — between Moolchand and Ambedkar Nagar in south Delhi — was introduced in 2008 and designed on the model of Bogota city in Colombia to make bus and bicycle travel safer and faster. TNN