Making FASTag mandatory won t breach right to freedom of movement, says Centre
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Last Updated: Apr 14, 2021, 02:41 PM IST
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The Centre made the submission in an affidavit filed in the High Court last week in response to a public interest litigation challenging its decision to make FASTag, the electronic toll collection chip, mandatory for all vehicles at toll plazas on national highways.
The Union government has informed the Bombay High Court that making FASTag mandatory for all vehicles plying on national highways does not breach a citizen s fundamental right to freedom of movement in any way. The Centre made the submission in an affidavit filed in the High Court last week in response to a public interest litigation challenging its decision to make FASTag, the electronic toll collection chip, mandatory for all vehicles at toll plazas on national highways.
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The Union government has informed the Bombay High Court that making FASTag mandatory for all vehicles plying on national highways does not breach a citizen s fundamental right to freedom of movement in any way.
The Centre made the submission in an affidavit filed in the High Court last week in response to a public interest litigation challenging its decision to make FASTag, the electronic toll collection chip, mandatory for all vehicles at toll plazas on national highways.
The Centre has informed the Bombay High Court that making FASTag mandatory for all vehicles plying on national highways does not breach a citizen's fundamental right to freedom of movement in any way.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Union government to file an affidavit in response to a PIL challenging the decision of making FASTag, India s electronic toll collection chip for national highways, mandatory for all vehicles at toll plazas. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni was hearing the public interest litigation (PIL) filed last week by one Arjun Khanapure, challenging the decision to make provision of toll payment through FASTag mandatory at all toll plazas across the country. The court directed the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to file its affidavit and posted the matter for hearing on March 17.
Bombay high court. (File photo)
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday sought the Centre and National Highway Authority of India’s response to a public interest litigation challenging the charging of double toll for non- use of FASTag, the electronic toll collection system, at toll plazas.
The direction by a bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni came on a PIL by Pune resident Arjun Khanapure to continue cash facility for ordinary people at toll plazas in Maharashtra. The petition said the respondents were “arbitrarily” collecting double the toll fee as fine for not using FASTag. His advocate Uday Warunjikar argued although there is no provision in the law, still NHAI is illegally fining people.