GURGAON: In its status report submitted to Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday, the Gurgaon traffic police said the petitioner, DSC Ltd, has not yet implemented the court's July 31 order in letter and spirit and accused the private concessionaire of committing contempt of court.
The report stated that according to the court's order, five booths equipped with computers were to be installed on each lane on both the sides of the plaza, allowing six vehicles to pay the toll fee simultaneously and leave, within a week from the date of the order.
However, the private concessionaire has still not set up five more booths on each lane. The report says that the concessionaire used hand-held machines instead of computers, and installed and removed temporary booths according to their wishes.
The traffic police department, in an affidavit, has said the DSC Ltd. set up two to four temporary booths in only seven or eight cash lanes at Sirhol toll plaza between 4:30pm and 7:30pm on August 9 instead of five booths on each lane. Receipts were issued from hand-held machines on these booths to vehicles coming from Gurgaon to Delhi whereas no tickets were issued to vehicles going from Delhi to Gurgaon.
On August 11, the experiment was carried out at the toll plaza between 9:30am and 10:30am, while the arrangement was in place between 6pm and 7:15pm on seven lanes from Gurgaon to Delhi side on August 13. The status report says DSC Ltd did not comply with the court order despite a letter sent to it on August 8.
Meanwhile, a DSC spokesperson said, "In the August 16 hearing, the high court has asked the concessionaire to continue experimenting with various tolling configurations with an objective to reduce congestion at the toll plaza. Apart from adding five additional remote terminals on the lanes as per its earlier order, the court also asked the concessionaire to try other options, including the split toll plaza tolling option. We would be continuing with the experiments and shall be filing the findings of the experiments by the next date of hearing."
The high court has fixed September 3 as the next date of hearing.
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