Apex court to hear Ideal Road Builders petition on April 21
On April 21, The Supreme Court will hear the petition filed by Ideal Road Builders (IRB) to withdraw the temporary stay granted by Bombay high court (HC) to the city’s toll collection.
Justice A S Oka and Justice M H Sonak headed an HC division bench had during a joint hearing of public interest litigations and a case filed by the IRB granted interim stay to the toll collection started by the firm in January. 95% work of construct 49-km roads under the Integrated Road Development Project (IRDP) had not been completed by IRB as stated by the bench. It informed the developer that final completion certificate has to be obtained from the authority.
On the grounds of the IRB project being incomplete, Kiran A Pawar and others in their PIL (179/2013) had sought a stay on toll collection.
Seeking police protection at the toll plazas the developer had later filed a petition. Sharad Mirashi and Subhash Wani – two other activists had also approached the HC in October 2013 seeking a stay on toll collection. In November 2013 the HC clubbed all the petitions together and began the hearing in the case.
Yuvraj Narvankar, Pawar’s lawyer, said, “The developer has moved the SC demanding revoking of the stay granted on toll collection, which was opposed by the people of the city. The advocate general of Maharashtra government and the Union of India were made other parties to the case by IRB.”
Based on suggestions of the three-member committee appointed by the urban development department (UDD) of the state the HC had given the directions to assess the quality and progress of the road work. According to the report, the works involved in the project such as constructing footpaths and manholes, electricity pole shifting and storm water management are yet to be finished. However, once the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation issued a provisional completion certificate IRB had started toll collection after it assessed the quality of 7.5-km roads of the total project of construction of 49-km internal roads.
Source: Times of India
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