The Madras High Court on Thursday sought the response of the Greater Chennai Traffic Police (GCTP) to a writ petition seeking an exemption for doctors from the prohibition on displaying stickers on vehicles indicating the profession or workplace of the owners.
Justice R. Kalaimathi ordered notice, returnable by two weeks, on the writ petition filed by K. Srinivasan, general secretary of Doctors Welfare Association of Tamil Nadu. The petitioner said, it was essential for the doctors to display such stickers in order to attend to emergencies.
He brought to the notice of the court that the GCTP had issued a press release on April 27 this year asking all motorists to remove, by May 1, the stickers such as ‘Press, Secretariat, TNEB, GCC, Defence and Police’ from their motor vehicles since they were prone to misuse.
