{"id":301980,"date":"2018-08-30T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T08:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301980"},"modified":"2018-08-30T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T08:18:47","slug":"madras-high-court-directs-nhai-to-provide-separate-lanes-for-vips-judges-at-toll-plazas-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/madras-high-court-directs-nhai-to-provide-separate-lanes-for-vips-judges-at-toll-plazas-across-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras High Court directs NHAI to provide separate lanes for VIPs, Judges at toll plazas across India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299506 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-590x420.jpg 590w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/>The Madras High Court directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to make separate lanes at the toll plazas for VIPs, including sitting judges, across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court said that it is very disheartening that VIPs and sitting Judges are compelled to wait for 10 to 15 minutes at toll plazas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An interim order was passed by the bench comprising justices MV Muralidharan and Huluvadi G Ramesh, directing the NHAI to issue the circular to all toll plazas to take\u00a0necessary steps for providing a separate lane\u00a0so that vehicles of sitting judges and VIPs can pass through without any hindrance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench further added that\u00a0it is embarrassing for VIPs and sitting judges to display identity documents at toll plazas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It warned that the court would issue show cause notices to all the authorities concerned unless the problem was rectified and any violation of the order would be viewed seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the bench, a circular may be issued to each toll collector for providing a separate lane for VIPs and sitting judges.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madras High Court directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to make separate lanes at the toll plazas for VIPs, including sitting judges, across the country. The court said that it is very disheartening that VIPs and sitting Judges are compelled to wait for 10 to 15 minutes at toll plazas. An interim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4500,2374,4497,4498,4501,4499],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301981,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301980\/revisions\/301981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}