S. Rajaseekaran vs Union of India - 2025 Supreme(SC) 1773

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2025 Supreme(SC) 1773

J. B. PARDIWALA, K. V. VISWANATHAN
S. Rajaseekaran – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Krishna Kumar, AOR Mr. Vinodh Kanna B, Adv.
For the Respondent(s):Mr. Vikramjit Bannerjee, A.S.G. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mrs. Madhulika Upadhyay AOR Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv. Mr. Sabrish Subramanium, Adv. Mr. Debojit Borkakati, Adv. Ms. Tusharika Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G. Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv. Mr. B.K. Satija, Adv. Mr. T.S. Sabarish, Adv. Mr. Debojit Borkakati, Adv. Mr. Viresh B. Saharya, AOR Ms. Prerna Mehta, AOR Mr. Kuriakose Varghese, Adv. Mr. V. Shyamohan, AOR Mr. Sanjay Jain, AOR Mr. Kishan Chand Jain, Adv. Mr. Sachin Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Haraprasad Sahu, Adv. Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR Mr. Satyajeet Kumar, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Rajat Bhardwaj, A.A.G. Ms. Ankita M Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Baani Khanna, AOR Mr. Robin Singh, Adv. Mr. Kapil Balwani, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mrs. Divya Mishra, Adv. Mr. Shaurya Vardhan Singh, Adv. Ms. Niharika Rai, Adv. Mr. Ashish K Singh, Adv. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Nitin Lonkar, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Neha Singh, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Ms. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Santhosh K, Adv. Mrs. Devika A.I., Adv. Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv. Mr. Dhananjay Dutta Shrimali, Adv. Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR Mr. Kishan Chand Jain, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ashwini Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sidhant Sahay, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR 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. 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. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Azmat Hayat Amanullah, AOR Ms. Rebecca Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Mr. Rajesh Maurya, Adv. Mrs. Kshama Sharma, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta Standing Counsel, Adv. Ms. Tulika Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Beenu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Venkat Narayan, Adv. Mr. Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Sr. A.A.G. Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR Mr. Sharanya Sinha, Adv. Ms. Veera Mahuli, Adv. Ms. Ritika Rao, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kishore, AOR Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR Mrs. Ranjita Sahu, Adv. Mr. Manaj Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Shirin Khajuria, Sr. Adv. Ms. Swati Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Rajan Narain, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Ms. Yanmi Phazang, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Ms. Pooja Singh, Adv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Aman Gautam, Adv. Ms. Anika Bansal, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Senior Advocate, Amicus Curiae Mr. Ravi Raghunath, AOR Mr. Manan Daga, Adv. M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Ms. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Annirudh Sharma Ii, Adv. Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, Adv. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Mr. Sumit Gupta, Adv. Ms. Jaikriti S. Jadeja, AOR Mr. Akshay Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Tanya Shrotriya, Adv. Mr. Shivang Goel, Adv. Ms. Juhi Bhargava, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Ms. Yashmita Pandey, Adv. Mr. Kunal Mimani, AOR Mr. Parag Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. D. K. Devesh, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Satyalipsu Ray, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhagwati, Adv. Ms. Priyal Sheth, Adv. Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Divyanshu Kumar Srivastava, AOR Mr. Saurabh Pandey, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Ms. Pooja Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Verma, Adv. Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR Mr. Yatharth Kansal, Adv.

Table of Content
1. public interest litigation for road safety (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4)
2. increase in pedestrian fatalities and governmental response (Para 5 , 6)
3. need for safe pedestrian infrastructure (Para 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 18)
4. importance of helmet use for two-wheeler riders (Para 28 , 30)
5. directions for enforcement of pedestrian and driver safety measures (Para 35 , 36)

ORDER

J.B. PARDIWALA & K.V. VISWANATHAN, JJ.

1. Dr. S. Rajaseekaran, a leading orthopaedic surgeon and a public- spirited citizen of this country has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 32 of the Constitution of India praying for the following reliefs in public interest:

b) To issue a writ of mandamus or any othe

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2025 Supreme(SC) 1773

J. B. PARDIWALA, K. V. VISWANATHANS. Rajaseekaran – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

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J. B. PARDIWALA, K. V. VISWANATHAN
S. Rajaseekaran – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent