FAISALABAD, July 28: The local administration and police have failed to implement the orders of the Lahore High Court chief justice about closing down of illegal wagon and bus stands set up by transporters in the city.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, on a writ petition filed by Muhammad Akram, had declared all halting points of bus and wagon along the Rakh Branch Canal and other city areas as illegal. The chief justice also directed the District Regional Transport Authority, Faisalabad, the DCO and SSP to take necessary steps in this direction.

The DCO, in a sudden move, asked the DPO and Traffic SP to take steps for the implementation of LHC orders. Acting promptly, the traffic police got closed over two dozen stands on Saturday night. But, after some hours, the owners of illegal wagon stands approached the district bosses and succeeded in plying their vehicles from stands of Abdullahpur and other parts of the city.

The spokesman of the RTA claimed that the LHC had already passed an order against the operation of Abdullahpur wagon stands which had been challenged in the Supreme Court and the august court had suspended the operation.

In this backdrop, the RTA has sought the legal opinion from the district attorney for implementing the recent decision of the LHC chief justice.