Ahmedabad:The Gujarat High Court has registered a suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in connection with an accident which killed 15 migrant workers in Surat district on January 19.
In the early hours of January 19, a truck ran over 15 people, including a one-year-old girl and eight women, sleeping on a pavement along Kim-Mandvi road.
A High Court bench comprising Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice A J Shastri, on January 27, registered a PIL with cause title "to regulate road discipline and to give shelter to weaker section", and issued notices to five government entities.
The notices were issued to the chief secretary, additional chief secretaries of Home and Ports and Transport departments, principal secretary of Labour and Employment department and transport commissioner.
The bench noted that, after the mishap, senior advocate Anshin Desai had written a letter to HC to register a suo motu PIL "so as to monitor certain important issues touching the life and liberty of the weaker sections and also to deal with their valuable right to housing, right to shelter and right to life being the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution".