2019 Supreme(SC) 1045
ARUN MISHRA, DEEPAK GUPTA
M. C. Mehta – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
Mr. S. Wasim A. Qadri, Mrs. Snidha Mehra, Mr. S. S. Rebello, Mr. B. V. Balram Das, Mr. R.S. Gerwal, Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Ms. Meenu Sethi, Mr. R. K. Singh, Ms. Priya Puri, Mr. Yati Sharma, Ms. Srishti Sharma, Mr. Ranjay Dubey, Mr. Anil Grover, Dr. Monika Gusain, Ms. Sakshi Kakkar, Mr. Shakti Singh, Applicant-in-person, Petitioner-in-person Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, Mr. P. K. Jain, Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, Mr. Annam D. N. Rao, Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Mr. Pramod Dayal, Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, Mrs. Priya Puri, Mr. R. P. Gupta, Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, Mr. Sushil Kumar Jain, Mr. Rakesh Kumar-i, M/S. Parekh & Co., Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Mr. Satya Mitra, Ms. Nandini Gidwaney, Mrs. B. Sunita Rao, Mr. Pavan Kumar, Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Mr. Parijat Sinha, Mr. V. K. Verma, Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, Mr. P. Parmeswaran, Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, Mr. Hardeep Singh Anand, Mr. Aniruddha Deshmukh, M/S. S. Narain & Co., Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, Mr. Vijay Panjwani, M/S. M. V. Kini & Associates, Mr. E. C. Agrawala, Mrs. Rani Chhabra, Mr. Abhishek, Mr. Praveen Swarup, Mr. Sudhir Mendiratta, Dr. Monika Gusain, M/S. Saharya & Co., Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, Mr. Shri Narain, Mr. Mohit D. Ram, Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Mr. Sandeep Narain, Mr. Tara Chandra Sharma, Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Mr. Ajit Pudussery, Mrs. K. Sarada Devi, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Bakshi, Mr. G. Prakash, Ms. Manjula Gupta, Mr. Prashant Kumar, Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, Mr. T. V. Ratnam, Mrs. Bina Gupta, Mr. Umesh Kumar Khaitan, M/S. Khaitan & Co., Ms. Binu Tamta, Mr. S. S. Shroff, Mr. Mukesh K. Giri, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, Mr. Ravindra Bana, Mr. Bimal Roy Jad, Mr. Surya Kant, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Mr. S. K. Bhattacharya, Mr. Sarvam Ritam Khare, Mr. Ashok Mathur, Ms. Shalini Kaul, Mr. Abhijat P. Medh, Mr. Munawwar Naseem, Ms. Pritha Srikumar, Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, Ms. Kiran Bhardwaj, Mr. M. P. Devanath, Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, Ms. Sakshi Kakkar, Ms. Surabhi Sanchita, Ms. Divya Roy, Mr. Vivek Gupta, Mr. Shekhar Kumar, Ms. Surbhi Mehta, Mr. B. V. Balaram Das, Ms. Jaikriti S. Jadeja, Mr. Yash Pal Dhingra, Ms. Garima Prashad, M/S. Karanjawala & Co., Mr. Rajiv Yadav, Mr. Gaurav, Adv
ORDER :
Deepak Gupta, J.
Modern conveniences bring with them their own problems. One of the most important conveniences of the industrial age is motor transport. This has brought with it many problems but we may highlight only two: (1) pollution and (2) parking space. It is the problem of parking which we seek to address in this order.
2. A vehicle, whether be it a motor car, bus, three-wheeler, scooter or a small scooty, transports one or more individuals from one place to the other. Once passengers/occupants of the vehicles have been taken to their destination, the vehicle in question has to be parked. This requires a lot of space, a lot of planning, a lot of infrastructure and a lot of money. The tendency of individuals is to save as much money as possible and not pay anything for parking.
3. Till the late 1970s motor cars were the prerogative of the rich. Most people who could afford motor cars lived in houses with driveways and garages. But as the economy of the country has improved and the earning capacity of people has risen there are more and more vehicles on the road. At the same time due to paucity of space and the astronomical rise in land prices the size of dwelling houses
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