Setback for Rapido, Bombay HC rejects plea against refusal of license to ply bike-taxis in Pune

The Bombay High Court Friday dismissed the “without merit” plea by Roppen Transportation Services Private Limited, the operator of Rapido bike taxi services in Mumbai and Pune, challenging the Maharashtra government’s refusal to allow entities such as the petitioner a licence through a notification issued on December 29, 2022. The court said the state government can take appropriate action if Rapido continues its services without a licence.

After the high court had warned the bike-taxi aggregator of strict action for functioning without a license, it had stated that all its services would be suspended in Maharashtra until January 20. The state government had informed the bench that the petitioner bike-taxi aggregator did not have license’s for services that included two-wheeler passenger service,