India, July 24 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed rickshaw driver unions to stop disrupting ride-hailing major Uber India's services and threatening violence and property damage. The order comes at a time when autorikshaw drivers had scheduled protests from July 23 after they began instigating Uber drivers wanting fare parity between app-based cab aggregators and black and yellow cabs. The unions also wanted a ban on bike taxis.

The court has directed the joint commissioner of police (traffic) to ensure that local senior police inspectors make sure that Uber's driver-partners and their vehicles are not stopped, blocked, or prevented from offering their services.

A single-judge bench of justice Riyaz Chagla was hearing a plea...