Denial Of Access To Road To Residents Of Hilly Areas Would Tantamount To Denial Of Constitutionally Guaranteed Right To Life: HP HC

The Himachal Pradesh High Court observed that access to roads, vis-à-vis, the residents of hilly areas is an inbuilt component of the constitutionally guaranteed right to life, and any denial thereof, to the residents of hilly areas, would tantamount to the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to life, hence, becoming breached and infringed. The Bench of Justices Sureshwar Thakur and Chander Bhusan Barowalia was hearing the plea of petitioners, seeking a mandamus upon the respondents, to operationalize the Dharampur-Rajpura road and declare it fit for plying of vehicles thereon, hence, for enabling the residents of the area concerned to ensure the plying thereon(s) of HRTC buses for them, thereafter, availing the facility of making road communication(s) therefrom.