Madhya Pradesh High Court Directs State & Municipal Corporation To File Compliance Report on Road Safety Policy, 2015

[11 October 2021]
The Gwalior Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered the State and Gwalior Municipal Corporation [GMC] to submit a compliance report to the Madhya Pradesh State Road Safety Policy, 2015. A Division Bench of Justice Sheel Nagu and Deepak Kumar Agarwal was hearing a petition alleging failure to maintaining and leveling the roads with a lack of adequately lighting of the public streets in important locations of Gwalior, leading to severe road safety concerns. Filed through Advocate Siddharth Sijoria, the petition states, “The failure of the civic bodies to carry out its statutory duties to secure to the public means of communication in good and proper condition is a gross violation of Fundamental Rights guaranteed under the Constitution.”