Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Thursday ordered an interim stay on collection of parking fee from patients and their attendants at Govt District Hospital, Khammam.Hearing a petition challenging parking fee collection at the health facility, Justice B Vijaysen Reddy ordered counters be filed by municipal administration and urban development department, director of medical education, Khammam collector and the hospital superintendent, while adjourning the case to Nov 12 for further hearing.The judge passed the directions while hearing a petition filed by Timmana Naveen Raju and Wazeed Mohmmad of Khammam town. Their counsel Ambedkar Dunna argued that authorities at the district hospital were collecting parking fee from patients and their attendants for vehicles parked on the hospital premises, terming the same as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the rules.Ambedkar urged the court to initiate action against the respondent authorities for allegedly collecting parking fee exceeding municipality rules under the Telangana Apartments Act 1987 and Telangana Municipalities Act and also in violation of a GO governing parking fee collection issued by the MA&UD department in Feb 2018, and in further violation of the Right to Health guaranteed by the Constitution.
