Relaxing its earlier order dated September 4, when the concessionaire had been barred from collecting the toll tax, a Division Bench of Justices Satish Kumar Mittal and Inderjit Singh, however, ordered that no toll would be charged from 8:30 AM to 10 AM and from 5:30 PM to 7 PM every day.
The orders is to come into force from 7 pm onwards today and will remain in force till October 3, when the court will again take up the case.
Hearing the case today, the court pulled up Delhi Gurgaon Super Connectivity Limited (DGSCL), the concessionaire, for failing to find a solution to traffic chaos on the expressway.
"You take decisions 100 times. What immediate steps are you taking tomorrow to bring relief to the commuters?" it asked.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation had earlier moved the court requesting permission for collection of toll tax from the commercial vehicles.
It had insisted that these vehicles were entering Delhi from Gurgaon side to avoid toll tax, resulting in more rush on the expressway and thus affecting the traffic even inside Delhi.
On September 4, the court had restrained the concessionaire from collecting toll tax after it found that the company had failed to find a solution to the traffic chaos during collection of the same.
