Noida Toll Bridge Co moves SC - The Noida Toll Bridge Company

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The Noida Toll Bridge Company (NTBCL) today moved the Supreme Court against an Allahabad high court order of yesterday, which restrained the company from charging tolls on the DND flyway. The court will likely hear the plea at 2 pm today.

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The DND Flyway is a 9.2km-long access-controlled 8-lane road connecting South Delhi to Noida and East Delhi. Yesterday, an Allahabad high court bench said NTBCL has already earned back the construction cost of the flyway, so there was no need to continue collecting toll from vehicles.

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The high court pronounced its order on a PIL filed by the Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Associations (FONRWA), which had moved the court in 2012. In April this year, FONRWA filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court seeking an order to restrain NTBCL from collecting toll on the DND. In June, the Supreme Court directed the Allahabad high court to decide on FONRWA's plea in three months.

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Ranjit Saxena, the advocate for FONRWA, claimed that NTBCL had already collected about Rs 2,000 crore in tolls and had more than recovered the Rs 408 crore it had cost them to build the flyway.

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Yesterday's order was the second time courts have stopped the company from charging a toll. In February 2014, the Delhi high court ordered that the toll plaza at Sirhaul on the Gurgaon Expressway be dismantled.

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