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2024 Supreme(SC) 1252

ABHAY S. OKA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH
S. Rajaseekaran – Appellant
Versus
Union Of India – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Sr.Adv. (Amicus Curiae), Mr. Ravi Raghunath, AOR, Mr. Manan Daga, Adv., Mr. Krishna Kumar, AOR, Mr. Vinodh Kanna B, Adv.
For the Respondent: Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G., Mr. Akshat Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Akansha Chahal, Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mrs. Nidhi Khanna, Adv. Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv. Mr. Debojit Borkakati, Adv. Mr. T S Sabarirsh, Adv. Mr. Kishan Chand Jain, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Viresh B. Saharya, AOR Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR Mr. Azmat Hayat Amanullah, AOR Ms. Rebecca Mishra, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Mr. Vivek Kishore, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Ms. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Annirudh Sharma II, Adv. Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Ms. Yashmita Pandey, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Akshay Gupta, Adv. Mr. Abbas B, Adv. Mr. D.K. Devesh, AOR M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Ms. Jaikriti S. Jadeja, AOR Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhagwati, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Ms. Pooja Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Harshita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Verma, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Mr. Prabhat Ranjan Raj, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gunjesh Ranjan, Adv. Mrs. Divya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Manoneet Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. R. Rajaselvan, Adv. Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Ms. Saushria Havelia, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Mr. Sarathraj B, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Ms. Sneha Menon, Adv. Mr. V. Shaitil J., Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mahi Pal Singh, Adv. Ms. Tanishka Grover, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Mr. V. Shyamohan, AOR Mr. Sanjay Jain, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv. Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv. Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G. Mr. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Ms. Mrinal Elker Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vineet Singh, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapur, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Santosh Kumar-I, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ayushi Bansal, Adv. Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Dora, Adv. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Raizada Ga, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, Adv. Mr. Nitin Lonkar, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Preet S. Phanse, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Standing Counsel, Adv. Ms. Tulika Mukherjee, AOR Mr. V. Aravind, Adv. Mr. Beenu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Venkat Narayan, Adv. Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR Mr. M.P. Vinod, AOR Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR Ms. Niharika Tanwar, Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, Adv. Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Sen, Adv. Mr. Fateh Singh, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Kumar Srivastava, AOR

ORDER :

1. We have heard Shri Gaurav Agrawal, learned Senior Advocate appointed as Amicus Curiae, Shri Vikramjit Banerjee, learned ASG and Shri Kishan Chand Jain, learned counsel.

2. The issue is of implementation of Section 136A of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short, “the 1988 Act”) which was brought on the statute book with effect from 1st April, 2021. Section 136A of the 1988 Act reads thus:

    “136-A. Electronic monitoring and enforcement of road safety.—(1) The State Government shall ensure electronic monitoring and enforcement of road safety in the manner provided under sub-section (2) on national highways, state highways, roads or in any urban city within a State which has a population up to such limits as may be prescribed by the Central Government.

    (2) The Central Government shall make rules for the electronic monitoring and enforcement of road safety including speed cameras, closed-circuit television cameras, speed guns, body wearable cameras and such other technology.

    Explanation.—For the purpose of this section the expression “body wearable camera” means a mobile audio and video capture device worn on the body or uniform of a person authorised by the State Government.”

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