Delhi HC Seeks Centre's Stand on Plea on Pending Challans and Fitness Certificate of Vehicles
News 18The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response of the Centre, AAP government and the police on a plea challenging the provisions which require closure of all pending challans involving a vehicle for availing any service, like fitness certificate or NOC, connected with it. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the Transport Ministry, Delhi government and the police seeking their stand on the plea by a taxi owner whose application for renewal of fitness certificate of his vehicle was not considered as there were several pending challans connected with the four wheeler. The taxi owner, Dharmendra Kumar, in his plea filed through advocate Praveen Agrawal, has sought quashing of the provisions under the Standard Operating Procedure, issued by the ministry in 2018, which mandate closure of all pending challans to be eligible to avail services like no objection or fitness certificates. It has alleged that the SOP provisions were being used as a tool to “compel” drivers/owners of commercial vehicles to compound or pay the challans and it does not impact the owners/drivers of private vehicles.