Key Highlights
- Toll operations resumed after the protesters were removed by the police.
- Addressing the media later, the MLA alleged that toll operations at Kumbala-Arikkady were in clear violation of national highway fee rules.
- He said the distance between the existing Talapady toll plaza and the newly opened Arikkady toll plaza was only 22 km, and that it was against the mandatory minimum distance of 60 km between two toll plazas on the same highway.
- Mr.
- Ashraf pointed out that the matter was pending before the Kerala High Court, and that despite appeals to suspend toll collection until the court delivered its verdict, the authorities had gone ahead with toll collection.
