The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant any interim relief to app-based cab company Uber on its plea challenging rejection of application for licence to operate in the national Capital, saying that it was not supposed to <g data-gr-id="24">ply</g> if it did not have any permit.
Justice Mukta Gupta issued <g data-gr-id="18">notice</g> to the Delhi government and the city police and sought their response by July 8 on Uber India Technology Pvt Ltd’s plea that a June 3 order rejecting its licence application be quashed.
The Delhi government had cancelled the licence application of Uber for not complying with the provisions of the recently amended Radio Taxi Scheme of 2006.
The amendment was introduced after app-based cab companies were banned in the Capital following <g data-gr-id="15">an Uber</g> cab driver allegedly raping a finance executive in December last year.
The modified scheme imposes various mandatory requirements, including having prefixed calibrated metres, a GPS device and running on CNG, on the companies for grant of licence.
Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Uber, said its case was similar to that of the two other companies, Apra Cabs India Pvt Ltd and Serendipity Infolabs Pvt Ltd (Taxi for Sure), whose applications for licence were rejected by the Delhi government on June 3.