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The Supreme Court connected Monday (November 10, 2025) said 2 back-to-back road accidents, one successful Telangana and the different at Phalodi successful Rajasthan, claiming astir 40 lives, galore of them children, is “too much” to bear.
The Court directed the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Centre to explicate wherefore Indian roads proceed to beryllium specified killers of innocents.
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“This is conscionable excessively much. In 2 days, determination person been 2 horrible accidents. Nearly 40 radical person gone,” Justice J.K. Maheshwari, accompanied by Justice Vijay Bishnoi connected the Bench, remarked.
The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the tragic road mishap successful Rajasthan’s Phalodi, which killed 15 people, erstwhile a tempo traveller rammed into a motortruck parked successful beforehand of an eatery astatine the Bharatmala road connected November 2, 2025. The tempo was carrying women and children from Jodhpur, who had gone connected a pilgrimage to Bikaner.
The precise adjacent day, 19 people, including a three-month-old girl, were killed erstwhile a lorry collided head-on with a autobus portion swerving to debar a pothole connected the NH 163 (Hyderabad-Bijapur) road connected November 3.
Justice Maheshwari said media reports were explicit astir the reasons down some accidents. It has been reported that the highways were successful a atrocious authorities of disrepair contempt payments of regular tolls.
The Court highlighted that eateries person been opened up illegally on the highways successful spots not earmarked arsenic installation areas.
“As a consequence, vehicles plying connected the roads are incapable to spot stationary trucks oregon different vehicles stopped by the broadside of the highway,” Justice Maheshwari remarked.
Issuing notice, the Court directed the NHAI, the Road Ministry to taxable a study connected the information of the 2 highways wherever the accidents took spot successful 2 weeks.
Impleading the Home Ministry, the Court directed the authorities Ministries and the NHAI to supply details of the fig of amerciable dhabas oregon eateries occupying unnotified areas on the banks of the 2 highways, the information of the roads, and the norms followed by contractors for maintaining the 2 thoroughfares.
The Court besides directed the announcement to beryllium issued to the Chief Secretaries of each the States done which the 2 highways passed.
Senior advocator A.N.S. Nadkarni, who was appointed amicus curiae, said the Court indispensable widen the ambit of the suo motu lawsuit to a pan-India basis. “Let america spot what happened present successful this lawsuit first,” Justice Maheshwari responded.
