New Delhi:
Individuals are not speculated to roam round on highways, the Supreme Courtroom mentioned on Monday whereas refusing to entertain a plea elevating the difficulty of security and safety of pedestrians on highways.
The court docket was listening to a petition difficult an order handed by the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom on a plea elevating points pertaining to the protection and safety of pedestrians on highways.
Dismissing the plea, the excessive court docket had mentioned no constructive instructions could be given because the reliefs claimed within the petition can be a matter of coverage choices.
It had mentioned for the grievances raised within the plea, it was open for the petitioners to method the Union Ministry of Street Transport and Highways.
The matter got here up for listening to on Monday earlier than a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia.
The counsel for the petitioners mentioned the difficulty raised within the plea pertained to the protection and safety of pedestrians on highways.
“How do pedestrians come on a freeway?” the bench requested, including that there must be self-discipline.
Referring to statistics, the counsel mentioned there was an enormous improve within the variety of street accidents involving pedestrians within the nation.
The bench mentioned such incidents would happen if pedestrians are discovered current the place they don’t seem to be speculated to be.
“The idea of highways is that it’s speculated to be segregated. Individuals are not speculated to be roaming round on highways. That self-discipline is required,” it noticed.
“Tomorrow, you’ll say that they need to be permitted to stroll or stroll on a freeway and the vehicles ought to cease. How can that occur?” the bench requested.
When the lawyer once more referred to the statistics and mentioned the variety of deaths from such accidents has gone up, the bench mentioned, “That’s as a result of highways have elevated … our self-discipline has not elevated.”
It mentioned the excessive court docket had granted liberty to the petitioners to method the ministry involved.
“You’ll be able to by no means have quite a lot of site visitors on highways, together with pedestrians on highways. You be proud of what you’ve got,” the bench mentioned, including, “If individuals violate the norms, how can the court docket say they will violate the norms?” It mentioned persons are not discovered roaming round on highways anyplace on this planet.
“This can be a petition completely with out logic. This could have been dismissed with value,” the bench noticed, including, “You’ve nonetheless acquired one thing from the excessive court docket.”
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