The Madras High Court on Monday refrained from stalling the conduct of the Formula 4 night street car race in Chennai and instead permitted the Tamil Nadu government to conduct the race with certain conditions such as paying attention to the highest degree of public safety and avoiding inconvenience to public.
Second Division Bench of Justices R. Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq made it clear that the in-patients of the Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital at Omandurar Estate, the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital or that of Madras Medical College Hospital should not be subjected to any inconvenience.
Since it was represented by a batch of public interest litigation petitioners that the speeding Formula race cars would generate a huge amount of noise, the judges insisted on installing sufficient number of sound arresters around the street car race circuit that had been planned around the Island Grounds in the city.
