 "Quadricycles get nod after 6-year battle within automobile industry to stop Bajaj’s product")
The arduous six-year wait included a bitter slugfest between Bajaj Auto's top boss Rajiv Bajaj and Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki and a slew of public interest litigations. The motor industry competitors opposed Bajaj's quadricycles as a new category of vehicles on grounds of safety and the fact that it would bypass “emission norms” strictly followed by car makers. As for the court cases, they wound their way up to the Supreme Court, which finally pronounced on the matter this year.
Last week, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari eventually announced that he has given the green signal to
