With concerns relating to the GHMC officials and police’s silence over the outrageous parking fees imposed by malls, movie theatres, hospitals, etc., the Telangana high court has taken up the cause of the people as public interest litigation.
Despite the fact that they granted building permissions only after ensuring adequate parking space in each commercial establishment, the court will seek answers from the municipal administration, town planning, disaster management, fire, police, and labour departments as respondents.
In the current PIL, the high court has named the GHMC commissioner as a respondent and wants to know why they allow the ‘parking fee loot’ despite a clear direction not to allow such levying of fees.
A hearing was scheduled for Monday. Building permits and business licenses are only granted when visitors have access to free parking spaces.
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Although they have the power to correct such errant malls, the official machinery is silent while commercial establishments charge heavy parking fees.
As members of the high court PIL committee, Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili and Justice A Abhishek Reddy saw cases of heavy parking fees in Hyderabad and elsewhere in the state and directed the registry to file this petition before an appropriate bench for adjudication and to pass fresh directions.
The illegal collection of parking fees across hospitals, food courts, and private shopping complexes has once again resumed. Five cases against illegal parking fees were filed by the Enforcement Vigilance and Disaster Management wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in April alone.
Recent examples include NIMS hospital and Chenoy Trade Centre, where Vijay Gopal, a Hyderabad-based activist, submitted parking tickets resulting in fines of 50,000 each. Earlier, the enforcement wing also fined a corporate hospital in Banjara Hills. GHMC has booked 26 cases regarding illegal parking since January.
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