PIONEER PUBLICITY CORPN Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ALL the aforesaid writ petitions filed by different advertising companies/agencies seek to a challenge similar notice issued to them by the Jaipur Municipal Corporation on similar grounds. They were therefore heard together and are being decided by this common judgment.

(2.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioners, learned counsel for Municipal Corporation, Jaipur, State of Rajasthan and Union of India (Railways ).

(3.) NUMBER of review petitioners came to be filed by the affected parties and therefore the Division Bench while partly allowing the review petitions modified the direction No. 16 in the terms as indicated in the judgment dated 31. 3. 2005. Shri Manish Bhandari argued that the petitioners are their licensees and they have no absolute right to insist on continuation of the license and their right to trade is always subject to reasonable restrictions. Public safety being of utmost of importance, the petitioners cannot be permitted to continue with the hoardings at sites which are likely to prove hazardous to public safety, besides being contrary to the orders of the Division Bench referred to above. It was lastly argued that if at all there was any seeming contradiction between the direction given by this Court and the Bye-laws, the same shall be taken care of in the amendment which has already been proposed and is underway.