New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from govt and traffic police on a public interest litigation seeking to regulate the plying of e-rickshaws in the city.A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia heard the PIL filed by Manish Parashar, who lost his eight-year-old daughter in an accident last year while she was going to school on an e-rickshaw. Issuing notice to Delhi govt, the transport department, traffic police and MCD, the court asked the authorities to inform it of the measures taken to regulate e-rickshaws.Raising concerns about public safety, the petitioner’s counsel said the girl was crushed to death after the speeding e-rickshaw, which was uninsured and plying on a prohibited road, overturned. There is unchecked proliferation of e-rickshaws, which have become a “relentless menace” as they ply in large numbers without adhering to any safety and technical standards, it added. PIL claimed that the traffic police data showed 108 accidents involving e-rickshaws between Jan 1 and Aug 20, 2025, resulting in 26 deaths. TNN
