IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

104 RA-CW-54-2026 in CWP-16127-2000 Date of decision: 04.02.2026 The Chandigarh Tourist Bus Operators Association (Regd.) and others ....Petitioners Vs.

Municipal Corporation, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ....Respondents CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSH BUNGER Present: Mr. G.S. Bal, Sr. Advocate assisted by Mr. Laxman Choudhary, Advocate for the applicants/petitioners.

Mr. Naveen Lohiya, Advocate for respondents No.1 & 2.

Mr Ashish Rawal, Additional Standing Counsel, U.T., Chandigarh assisted by Ms. Subhreet Kaur, Jr. Panel Counsel, U.T., Chandigarh for respondents No.3 to 5.

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HARSH BUNGER J. (Oral)

By way of the present review application, the review applicants/petitioners seek a review of the judgment dated 09.04.2025 passed by this Court in CWP No. 16127 of 2000.

2. The only ground raised by the learned Senior counsel for review applicants/petitioners is that the imposition of parking charges as mentioned in para No.13 of judgment dated 09.04.2025 is wholly untenable as almost all the review applicants/petitioners have been parking their buses outside the territorial jurisdiction of Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh at Mohali or otherwise and thus, no parking fee could be ordered to be charged from them. It is stated that most of the companies having tourists buses have already closed down their businesses and the buses mentioned in Annexure P-1 pertaining to the petitioners No.2 to 13 have since been condemned and new buses have been purchased. Accordingly, it is contended that the matter should be left to the parties to undertake an exercise between themselves, as to how many buses they had at the particular time, and whether they had parked the same, and also as to whether the parking fee could be charged.

3. I have considered the aforesaid contention raised on behalf of the review applicants/petitioners and perused the paperbook. The operative part of the judgment dated 09.04.2025, reads as under:-

“12. Be that as it may, considering the afore-mentioned facts and circumstances, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the present writ petition with the following directions:-

(i) Let the issue concerning identification and designation of Parking Places / sites or Bulk Parking area(s) for facilitating parking of Tourist Buses etc. by charging appropriate Parking Fee be considered by a Committee consisting of:

(a) District Magistrate (b) State Transport Authority (c) Superintendent of Police (Traffic)

(d) Joint Commissioner,Municipal Corporation Chandigarh.

(ii) The above constituted Committee while identifying / designating such Parking Places / sites or Bulk Parking area(s), must make proper assessment of the parking needs for the next 25 years so that requisite parking facilities are provided;

(iii) The above constituted Committee shall also decide as regards the other facilities to be provided at such Parking Places / Sites, keeping in view Rule 202 of the Chandigarh Motor Vehicle Rules 1990;

(iv) The above constituted Committee shall also consider and levy appropriate parking charges of private / Tourist buses, keeping in view the facility to be provided at such parking places/sites.

13. Further, since the issue of providing of parking places/sites has been pending for quite some time now and it is not disputed that the authorities have been providing parking places/facilities for the tourist buses etc., and also to settle past issues of levying appropriate parking charges leviable upon private/tourist buses within Chandigarh municipal limits, I deem it just, fair and proper to direct that the following parking charges be levied till today:

13.1 It is further directed that the par