A lawyer has moved the Madras high court seeking the rollback of the recent hike of bus fare in Tamil Nadu .
Advocate George William made an urgent mention about the fare hike before a division bench of Justices R Subbiah and T Ravindran as soon as they started court proceedings at around 10.30am and sought the court to hear the plea urgently.
William claimed that the hike was “unjustified and arbitrary”, and requested the court to interfere and direct the government to withdraw the hike, stating that the hike was adversely affecting the people and student community.
The bench however refused the urgent hearing, and asked the lawyer to file a proper petition that would be taken up for hearing in due course.
The Tamil Nadu government increased the bus fare on January 19 after six years.
The minimum fare of Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses in Chennai has been hiked from Rs 3 to Rs 5, while the maximum had gone from Rs 14 to Rs 23. For non-metros, the increase has been in the range of Rs 3 to Rs 19.
