<div><span> Delhi Police and Transport Department will launch a crackdown on e-rickshaws plying on the roads of the national capital following the Delhi High Court order today directing the city government to stop e-rickshaws from plying "as of now".<br /><br /></span><div>Special Commissionor of Police (Traffic) Muktesh Chander said that they will pass directions of impounding e-rickshaws to their officials through wireless message once they get a copy of the court's order.<br /><br /></div><div>"As per court's direction, traffic police will proceed and seize such vehicles plying on roads of the national Capital," Chander said.<br /><br /></div><div>On June 17, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari while addressing a rally of e-rickshaw owners and drivers at Ramlila Maidan, had announced that e-rickshaws having motor till 650W would now be regarded as non-motorised vehicles and Transport department and traffic police could not challan them.<br /><br /></div><div>After Gadkari's intervention, all three MCDs had started the process of regularizing these vehicles.<br /><br /></div><div>Transport Department officials also said that their enforcement wing would start seizing such vehicles.<br /><br /></div><div>"We are now studying the court's order and thereafter, we will take action against such vehicles," said a top official of the transport department.<br /><br /></div><div>There area around 70,000 battery-operated rickshaws plying on roads in the national capital.<br /><br /></div><div>A bench of justices B D Ahmed and S Mridul today said "Stop it as of now," while while observing that "unregulated plying of vehicles on Delhi roads is prima facie a hazard to other traffic on road as well as the citizens".<span></span></div></div>
<div><span> Delhi Police and Transport Department will launch a crackdown on e-rickshaws plying on the roads of the national capital following the Delhi High Court order today directing the city government to stop e-rickshaws from plying "as of now".<br /><br /></span><div>Special Commissionor of Police (Traffic) Muktesh Chander said that they will pass directions of impounding e-rickshaws to their officials through wireless message once they get a copy of the court's order.<br /><br /></div><div>"As per court's direction, traffic police will proceed and seize such vehicles plying on roads of the national Capital," Chander said.<br /><br /></div><div>On June 17, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari while addressing a rally of e-rickshaw owners and drivers at Ramlila Maidan, had announced that e-rickshaws having motor till 650W would now be regarded as non-motorised vehicles and Transport department and traffic police could not challan them.<br /><br /></div><div>After Gadkari's intervention, all three MCDs had started the process of regularizing these vehicles.<br /><br /></div><div>Transport Department officials also said that their enforcement wing would start seizing such vehicles.<br /><br /></div><div>"We are now studying the court's order and thereafter, we will take action against such vehicles," said a top official of the transport department.<br /><br /></div><div>There area around 70,000 battery-operated rickshaws plying on roads in the national capital.<br /><br /></div><div>A bench of justices B D Ahmed and S Mridul today said "Stop it as of now," while while observing that "unregulated plying of vehicles on Delhi roads is prima facie a hazard to other traffic on road as well as the citizens".<span></span></div></div>