Right to safe travel on NHs part of right to life, SC order says

The Supreme Court has declared that the information of commuters against roadworthy accidents and the close to harmless transition connected highways are portion of the cardinal close to beingness nether Article 21 of the Constitution.

“National Highways represent astir 2% of India’s full roadworthy magnitude but relationship for astir 30% of each roadworthy fatalities. A road, peculiarly a high-speed expressway, indispensable not go a corridor of peril owed to administrative lethargy oregon infrastructural gaps. The nonaccomplishment of adjacent a azygous beingness to avoidable hazards similar amerciable parking oregon blackspots, etc., represents a nonaccomplishment of the state’s protective umbrella,” a Bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar observed successful an April 13 order.