A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Manmohan Singh reserved the order on the review plea after hearing arguments from various parties.
Appearing for the Delhi government, senior counsel K T S Tulsi submitted that the court should dismiss the review petition as the petitioner NGO did not mention in its main petition the ground of violation of master plan for scrapping the BRT corridor.
The review petition, filed by NGO Nyay Bhoomi through its President B B Sharan, said, "MPD 2021 is a statutory plan and has the force of law. As per the master plan, the BRT cannot exist on a road less than 45 metres in width.
"Under the master plan of Delhi 2012, BRT is conceived on the road segment where the total width of road is 45 metres and above. However, this court has inadvertently computed 45 metre equal to 100 feet, whereas 45 meters comes to be about 150 feet...
While dismissing the PIL earlier, the high court had said, "There being no scope to expand the width of the existing roads and the population of Delhi continuously being on rise, we see no escape from the fact that the citizens of Delhi have to, one day or the other, use public transport.
"On said reason also, it cannot be said implementation of BRT corridors in the city of Delhi is an irrational decision," the court had said. (More)
