The Madras High Court has directed the Chennai Corporation counsel to file an affidavit within a week with regard to a public interest litigation seeking a direction to the official authorities not to allot shops for pavement hawkers on a nine feet bye-lane on Usman Road between Ranganathan Street and Natesan Street.
The First Bench comprising the Chief Justice A.K.Ganguly and Justice F.M.Ibrahim Kalifulla, said the impleaded Makkal Podhunala Sirukadai Vyabaarigal Sangam-Usman Salai Ora Sirukadai Vyabaarigal Sangam may also file an affidavit within a week.
The petitioner could file a reply, if any, within a week thereafter.
The Bench posted the matter for hearing after three weeks.
Assurance recorded
In the meantime, it recorded the assurance given by the counsel for Chennai Corporation that the civic body would not make any permanent structure on the lane in question.
Writ plea filed
K. R. Ramaswamy alias Traffic Ramaswamy of T. Nagar filed a writ petition stating that the police were intending to allot shops to about 200 pavement hawkers on the conservancy bye-lane. If shops were allotted, they would occupy six feet in the nine-foot lane.
Only the remaining space would have to be used by the public going to the Mambalam railway station and for purchase from the shops, he said.
If a fault occurred in the drainage or in the electrical junction boxes or cables, it would be very difficult to carry out the repairs without dislocating the shops, he said.
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