The Nethaji Transport Workers Union filed a writ petition against the Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Transport Department, the Transport Commissioner, and the Managing Director of the Tamilnadu State Metropolitan Transport Corporation. The union sought a writ of mandamus to direct the respondents to consider their representation dated January 27, 2016 regarding grievances about GPS machines and their desire to revert to manual ticketing. The court noted that adopting new technologies like GPS machines is necessary due to developments and that GPS prevents problems, but dismissed the petition since policy decisions are not for the court to opine on, directing the third respondent to consider the representation on its merits according to law.