NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a Delhi High Court order which made it mandatory for all buses in the Capital to have a low floor body as a pre-condition for their registration with the State Transport Authority.

A bench of Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan and Justice R. V. Raveendran stayed the order on a petition filed by an educational institution which challenged the order as being illegal and draconian.

Taking a serious view of the growing number of accidents in the Capital, the Delhi High Court on March 26 passed an order directing that the State Transport Authority should register only buses that had a low floor.

The directions were based on the recommendations of a committee that stated that buses with low floor were ideal for driving and acted as a deterrent against accidents.

The committee recommended that all heavy buses be registered by the authorities only if they had low floors.

However, the High Court passed an order under which it was made mandatory for all types of transport buses to have low floors.

The blanket order on the pre-condition for registration of all type of buses was challenged by the Gakko Bunka Education Society. - PTI.

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