Rapido, a bike taxi aggregator, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of India against a Bombay High Court order ordering it to cease all operations in Maharashtra because it was operating without a licence. Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi brought the matter before a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha. The matter has now been scheduled for January 23, 2023 by the bench. Earlier, while hearing Rapido's plea challenging the state's refusal to grant licences to entities like it, the Bombay High Court's division bench of Justices GS Patel and Justice SG Dige told Rapido that it would dismiss the petition with costs if they refused to shut down their services after the bench was informed that Rapido does not have a licence to operate any of these services.
As a result, the bike taxi aggregator Rapido was forced to suspend all of its services in Maharashtra, including bike taxi, rickshaw, and food delivery, until January 20, 2023.
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