After recording that the situation has improved after deployment of police at Sengurichi and Tirumandurai toll plazas, it orders maintenance of status quo until October 10
FASTag readers and CCTV cameras were damaged at Sengurichi and Tirumandurai toll plazas. File photo | Photo Credit: S SIVA SARAVANAN
The Madras High Court held a special sitting on Tuesday, despite it being a holiday on account of Ayutha Puja, to hear a writ petition by Trichy Tollway Private Limited accusing a few retrenched workmen of having damaged the FASTag readers and closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras at Sengurichi and Tirumandurai toll plazas on National Highway-38 passing through Kallakurichi and Perambalur districts.
When the case was heard by Justice C. Saravanan through video conference, senior counsel AR.L. Sundaresan, representing the petitioner firm, said the FasTag readers and CCTV cameras in Sengurichi were restored at around midnight and those in Tirumandurai toll plazas were restored 20 minutes before the hearing of the case. Special Government Pleader A. Selvendran said, police had been deployed in both toll plazas.