{"id":956729,"date":"2025-08-22T08:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956729"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:03:13","slug":"karnataka-high-court-questions-bike-taxi-ban-backs-operators-right-to-livelihood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/22\/karnataka-high-court-questions-bike-taxi-ban-backs-operators-right-to-livelihood\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka High Court questions bike taxi ban, backs operators\u2019 right to livelihood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday came down on the state government\u2019s ban on bike taxis, calling its arguments against the service &#8216;thin&#8217; and &#8220;legally untenable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru, heading the bench, noted that bike taxis are permitted in at least 13 states across the country and have emerged as a lawful and essential mode of urban transport.<\/p>\n<p>He observed that such services are not a luxury but a necessity, especially for affordable and efficient last-mile connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday came down on the state government\u2019s ban on bike taxis, calling its arguments against the service &#8216;thin&#8217; and &#8220;legally untenable&#8221;. Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru, heading the bench, noted that bike taxis are permitted in at least 13 states across the country and have emerged as a lawful and essential mode of urban transport. He observed that such services are not a luxury but a necessity, especially for affordable and efficient last-mile connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}