Kerala High Court seeks practical road safety inputs from Transport Commissioner and other authorities

15 October 2026

The Kerala High Court on Thursday, 15 October 2026, called for urgent practical solutions from State authorities to ensure road safety and to implement its earlier directions. The Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar observed that time is of essence and that the Court's directions will have to be implemented without delay. The Bench was hearing a suo motu writ petition monitoring road safety in the State along with a connected plea. Its earlier directions included a State-wide, GIS-enabled Integrated Road Safety Monitoring Platform to link the existing systems of the Public Works Department, the Motor Vehicles department, the Kerala Police and other State agencies, and measures on over-speeding and rash driving by private buses. The Court said any respondent officer may appear in person or virtually so that inputs can be obtained, and referred to problems of lane indiscipline, inadequate signage and weak follow-up on AI camera detections. The case is posted to 3 November 2026 at 1:45 p.m.