563 and 839 of 1979 filed by the cycle rickshaw pullers of amritsar were disposed of by this companyrt on august 5 1980 by a judgement in which the court decided number to enter into the question of the constitutional validity of the punjab act but on the contrary to frame a scheme in furtherance of the act and for the purpose of giving effect to it.
v. state of punjab ors.
they carry on that activity for about eight months in the year and then return to the regions to which they belong.
1981 1 scr 366.
and writ petition number 839 of 1979 azad rickshaw pullers union regd.
in the circumstances a number of cycle rickshaw pullers filed civil writ petition number 563 of 1979 nanak chand ors.
they observe this practice year after year.
for the hire of cycle rickshaws they pay the owners a certain sum for the day retaining the balance of the days income to themselves.
original jurisdiction writ petition civil number.
the bye laws framed by the delhi municipal companyporation were challenged by cycle rickshaw pullers in writ petition number 841 of 1980 nanhu ors.
over the years there has been companysiderable agitation in the state of punjab against the practice of the owners of cycle rickshaws hiring people of the poorest stratum in society to ply the cycle rickshaws for public passenger traffic and to charge them for each days use of the vehicles.
the two writ petitions number.
the scheme propounded by the companyrt in azad rickshaw puller union supra was intended to be a self working specific scheme which makes the statutory ban number a negative self defeating interdict but a positive econumberic manumission and to apply to the entire state of punjab.
under article 32 of the companystitution of india m. tarkunde and s.m.
it is said that oppressed by their poverty the petitioners and those similarly placed are obliged to enter into this arrangement with cycle rickshaw owners who through such exploitation are able quite often to obtain an unduly handsome return on the paltry investment made in the purchase of the cycle rickshaws.
it is alleged by the petitioners that they are number in a position to purchase any cycle rickshaws and that unless they hire the vehicles they cannumber carry on that activity.
57286308 of 1982.
bagga for the respondents.
naunit lal and s.k.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by pathak j. the petitioners in these writ petitions ply cycle rickshaws in amritsar which they hire for the day from the owners of those vehicles.
841 of 1980 and 728 of 1980 pertaining to the cycle rickshaw pullers of delhi and the judgment proceeded on the same lines as in amritsar writ petitions.
1981 1 scr 373.
v. the state of punjab ors.
most of the petitioners belong to other districts of punjab and also companye from the neighbouring states of jammu and kashmir himachal pradesh and uttar pradesh.
town hall amritsar ors.
v. delhi administration ors.
likewise on the same day this companyrt disposed of writ petitions number.
ashri for the petitioners.
