Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking halt for Vande Bharat train at Tirur railway station
18-Jul-2023The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a halt for the Vande Bharat Express at the Tirur railway station in Kerala's Malapuram district [PT Sheejish v Union of India & Ors].
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a halt for the Vande Bharat Express at the Tirur railway station in Kerala's Malapuram district [PT Sheejish v Union of India & Ors].
A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and Manoj Misra expressed its reservations about the court's involvement in deciding train stops.
"You want us to decide which train stops it should have. Now we will also take a call on stations from Delhi to Mumbai Rajdhani. Sorry dismissed," the Court said.
The plea before the apex court challenged a May 2 decision of the Kerala High Court rejecting such a prayer.
A division bench consisting of Justices Bechu Kurian Thomas and C Jayachandran of the High Court had dismissed the plea stating that halting points of a train are determined by the Indian Railways and no one has a vested right to demand halt for a train at a particular station.
