HYDERABAD, May 10: A bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad, on Wednesday rejected a plea challenging a ban on entry of buses in the city.

The petition was dismissed after Sindh additional advocate-general Masood A. Noorani argued in the court that the district nazim had passed no such order which had been impugned by the petitioner.

The petitioner, Yousuf Ali, had cited the chairman of the District Regional Transport Authority, Hyderabad, DPO and the secretary of the Regional Transport Authority as respondents in the petition.

The petitioner said he was a representative of a private bus owners’ association and plying a local bus since July 2000 as per proposed time schedule issued by the RTA secretary and passed by the PTA. He added that around 300 buses were plying on different routes to Hyderabad through valid and legal route permits but the respondent district nazim illegally constituted a committee, comprising two MPAs of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, to look into the matter.

He regretted that no meeting of the district council was called to discuss the issue and without any resolution by the council, entry of buses into the city limits was banned on the ground that it led to traffic congestion.