Delhi High Court says protestors stalling metro services, dumping garbage on roads should go to jail
Services on the Blue Line were disrupted on May 31 after the Delhi metro staff and Central Industrial Security Force personnel got into a scuffle.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday suggested punitive action against protestors who stall Metro services or dump garbage on streets, PTI reported.
“All of them should go to jail,” acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said.
Services on the metro’s Blue Line – running between Dwarka Sector-21 and Janakpuri West –were temporarily halted on May 31 after metro staff and Central Industrial Security Force personnel got into a scuffle over a parking dispute. The station manager accused a CISF sub-inspector of assaulting him when he objected to the officer parking his motorcycle in a specific area, the police said.
The disruption of the services led one Puran Chand Arya to petition the court for punitive action against those responsible. The court clubbed Arya’s plea with another petition related to the May 24 agitation by the New Delhi Municipal Council’s contractual sanitation workers. The workers had dumped garbage outside government buildings such as Shastri Bhavan and Rail Bhavan in Lutyens’ Delhi to press their demands for regularisation of jobs and better wages.
The court issued a notice to the Centre, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the Central Industrial Security Force and the police seeking their stand on Arya’s plea.
