KARACHI, June 6: Justice Haziqul Khairi, the Sindh Ombudsman, has instructed the DIG Traffic Karachi, Highway Police, Sindh, Secretary Regional Transport Authority and Sindh Transport Secretary to enforce all steps preventing minibuses and coaches to ply the city roads without separate and segregated ladies compartments and seating arrangements as per approved designs.

Since there were complaints about non-implementation of the Ombudsman’s instructions by transporters and the failure of agencies to book defaulters under section 115 of the Motor Vehicles Act, which provides, inter alia, for impounding vehicles for breach of terms of licence in not providing separate ladies compartment and segregation of their seats, Justice Khairi formed a committee to monitor the enforcement of his instructions.

The committee reported that a large number of minibuses and coaches had not carried out the instructions. The Ombudsman therefore instructed the DIG Traffic to fully enforce his decision in letter and in spirit. — PPI