Ensure toll plazas are maintained hassle-free: HC

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed authorities to ensure that toll plazas are maintained hassle-free and no exemption is granted to any individual or political party in violation of the law.

The court was hearing a petition by A.R. Jeyarhuthran of Tirunelveli district who had sought a direction to the authorities to ensure proper maintenance of Kappalur-Uthangudi ring road and prohibit the conduct of events in the vicinity of the ring road.

He said the ring road functioned as a lifeline for passenger traffic, trade and commercial movement. In recent times, political parties had been conducting conferences in the venues abutting the ring road. Such events resulted in traffic congestion and hardship to the public, he said.