{"id":323103,"date":"2024-05-28T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=323103"},"modified":"2024-06-13T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T03:57:00","slug":"suo-moto-cognizance-of-increase-in-road-accidents-chhattisgarhhc-legal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/05\/28\/suo-moto-cognizance-of-increase-in-road-accidents-chhattisgarhhc-legal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh High Court takes suo moto cognizance of alarming rate of road accidents; asks State to show compliance report on Supreme Court\u2019s directions in S. Rajaseekaran (II) case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Chhattisgarh High Court:<\/span> The Division Bench of Ramesh Sinha, CJ., and Parth Prateem Sahu, J., took suo moto cognizance of alarming condition of traffic on roads, leading to increase in road accidents in Chhattisgarh and sought responses from State officials of National Highway Authority of India (&#8216;NHAI&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court considered reports from various daily newspapers highlighting the alarming rate of road accidents and severe traffic safety issues in the State. One such incident was reported by Dainik Bhaskar, about the accident caused due to failure of brakes of the truck carrying 36 persons of the Baiga tribe, causing death of 19. Another report, by Bilaspur Bhaskar, described the poor trafic condition of the roads and highways in the State and highlighted that in the last four years, 107 deaths could be attributed to drinking and driving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court expressed concern over the alarming situation and directed that every attempt must be made on part of the State to take all necessary measures to remove all possibilities which may lead to any casualty in a road accident. The Court added that while ex-gratia compensation can provide some assistance to the bereaved families, it cannot replace the loss of a breadwinner.<\/p>\n<p>Following the decision in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">S. Rajaseekaran (II) v. Union of India<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/A4BO78Tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(2018) 13 SCC 516<\/a>, where the Supreme Court had issued detailed directions and guidelines regarding what action the State and concerned authorities should take so as to minimize road accidents, the Court issued following directions to State authorities:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>\n<p>to file their personal affidavits indicating their compliance with the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">S. Rajaseekaran<\/span> guidelines;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>to bring on record the circulars and orders issued by them relating to road safety and minimization of road accidents in the past;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">to inform the Court about the constitution of District Road Safety Committees in the State and their respective functioning as per the Supreme Court guidelines.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court granted four weeks&#8217; time for the respondents to reply and scheduled the next hearing for 25-06-2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Court on its own motion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/uht12uS1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 SCC OnLine Chh 4449<\/a>, order dated 24-05-2024<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the Respondent:<\/span> Prafull N. Bharat, Advocate General for State, Ramakant Mishra, Deputy Solicitor General for the Union of India, Dheeraj Wankhede, Advocate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Court acted in response to the various newspapers reporting of the alarming condition of traffic on the streets\/roads and especially in Highways of the State, owing to over speeding, roaming of stray cattle on the roads, non-maintenance of the roads, poor lighting, absence of proper signage, absence of reflectors, lack of patrolling by the authorities, disorderly parking of trucks and vehicles on the roads, driving of vehicles after consuming alcohol, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":315373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[66535,43346,30591,19791,31683,45152,69199,69198,47533],"class_list":["post-323103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-bilaspur","tag-chhattisgarh","tag-chhattisgarh-high-court","tag-motor-vehicles-act","tag-nhai","tag-road-accident","tag-s-rajaseekaran-guidelines","tag-state-highway","tag-suo-moto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chhattisgarh HC takes suo moto cognizance of the alarming rate of road accidents | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chhattisgarh High Court takes suo moto cognizance of the alarming rate of road accidents; asks State to show compliance report on Supreme Court\u2019s directions in S. 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