{"id":987706,"date":"2026-01-26T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987706"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:42:53","slug":"karnataka-high-court-lifts-ban-on-bike-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/karnataka-high-court-lifts-ban-on-bike-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka High Court lifts ban on bike taxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Friday lifted the ban on bike taxi services in the state, paving the way for aggregators, including Ola, Uber and Rapido, to resume two-wheeler ride-hailing operations. <\/p>\n<p>A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice CM Joshi set aside an April 2025 single-judge order that had prohibited bike taxis in Karnataka in the absence of state-specific rules under the Motor Vehicles Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Friday lifted the ban on bike taxi services in the state, paving the way for aggregators, including Ola, Uber and Rapido, to resume two-wheeler ride-hailing operations. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice CM Joshi set aside an April 2025 single-judge order that had prohibited bike taxis in Karnataka in the absence of state-specific rules under the Motor Vehicles Act.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987706","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=987706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}