{"id":544737,"date":"2022-12-24T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=544737"},"modified":"2022-12-24T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T05:40:50","slug":"hc-asks-nhai-to-respond-to-plea-challenging-collection-of-double-toll-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hc-asks-nhai-to-respond-to-plea-challenging-collection-of-double-toll-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"HC asks NHAI to respond to plea challenging collection of double toll tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court sought on Friday the response of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Centre to a plea challenging the rule making it compulsory for vehicles without FASTag to pay double the the toll tax.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notices to the NHAI and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&amp;H) on the petition which contended that the rule was discriminatory, arbitrary and against public interest as it empowers the NHAI to collect toll at double the rate, if paid in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court sought on Friday the response of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Centre to a plea challenging the rule making it compulsory for vehicles without FASTag to pay double the the toll tax. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notices to the NHAI and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&amp;H) on the petition which contended that the rule was discriminatory, arbitrary and against public interest as it empowers the NHAI to collect toll at double the rate, if paid in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}