The Delhi High Court (HC) on Wednesday slammed the Delhi government for its failure to comply with a 19-year-old order of the Supreme Court (SC) to procure adequate number of buses in the national Capital. The court rapped the AAP government, stating that it has not given any reason to back its claim of unrealistic prices being charged for the low-floor buses. "For the last 10 years, you have justified not buying low-floor buses, saying the price was unrealistic without saying what is realistic or carrying out an empirical study," the bench stated. "You should see what you are balancing the cost against," the bench said to the Delhi government. The court's remarks come while hearing a PIL by a person suffering from locomotor disability, challenging the Delhi government's move to procure 2,000 standard floor buses at a cost of Rs 300 crore.
