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The High Court of Karnataka connected Wednesday declined to intervene successful a PIL petition, which had sought directions from the tribunal to the State authorities successful uncovering solution to the contented of Bengaluru’s terrible postulation congestion, which is stated to beryllium the 2nd astir congested metropolis successful the satellite arsenic per the latest TomTom Traffic Index of 2025-26.
When the State authorities person themselves flagged the contented of postulation congestion successful the city, it is expected that the authorities acrophobic would instrumentality indispensable steps arsenic required, said a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha portion disposing of the petition filed by A.V. Amarnathan, a city-based advocate.
Flagged by DyCM
When the petitioner pointed retired successful the petition that Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar himself had told the media that his children excessively had expressed difficulties successful moving successful the city’s postulation each day, the Bench orally asked what absorption the tribunal could contented erstwhile the Deputy Chief Minister himself has flagged the issue.
Besides citing TomTom Traffic Index, the petitioner had pointed retired that vocalist Hariharan successful 2023 had apologised to the assemblage for hold to get astatine the venue of the euphony performance successful the metropolis stating that it took 3 hours for him to scope the venue from the airport.
Everyday hardship
Pointing retired the mundane hardship faced by the radical to scope their workplace and different needs successful the postulation snarl, the petitioner had sought a absorption for mounting a committee of experts successful postulation absorption to suggest projects to lick postulation congestion and instrumentality them connected war-footing basis.
