Court keeps BIA road toll in abeyance

BANGALORE: In a relief to thousands of air travellers and commuters, a Devanahalli court on Tuesday stayed the collection of toll on the road leading to the Bengaluru International Airport.
Principal civil judge and JMFC Bhamini, who heard a petition filed by four lawyers against the contractor and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), ordered that no toll should be collected from the public until the case is disposed of.
The lawyers — Chandrashekhar, N Srinivasamurthy, Ramamurthy and Ramesh — had said the road to BIA also leads to various parts of Karnataka and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. “Farmers use the airport road to ferry agricultural produce to Bangalore and other parts of the state. The toll is a heavy burden on them,” they had said
The petition was filed against Navayuga Constructions and the NHAI, represented by its project administrator R K Gupta.