The Delhi high court asked the AAP government on Monday whether there was any possibility of exempting advocates for the remaining period of the ongoing second phase of the odd-even car rationing scheme that will continue till April 30.
A bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath made the query while hearing a petition that sought exemption for lawyers and also against imposition of Rs 2,000 fine for violation of the scheme without proper amendments in the Motor Vehicles Act.
“We will take up the matter tomorrow and you (counsel for the government) take instructions if there is any possibility of exempting lawyers for the remaining period of the odd-even scheme, which will expire on April 30,” the bench said.
The Delhi government’s senior standing counsel Rahul Mehra told the bench that like the first round held in January, the second round too was for a limited period.
“This (odd-even scheme) will end on Saturday (April 30). This is on experiment basis,” he said.
Advocate Rajiv Khosla, the petitioner in the matter, maintained that the AAP government was saying that the demands of the advocates were duly considered, but out of the total number of lawyers in the national capital, only 10 per cent had cars.
“Number of cars used by lawyers per day here is only about 3,000,” he said while giving the breakup of the cars used by the lawyers in the high court, the Supreme Court, district courts and forums here.
