JUDGMENT :

SHAJI P. CHALY, J.

The captioned Public Interest Litigations are materially connected, in respect of the non implementation of the provisions of the Kerala Road Safety Authority Act, 2007 (hereinafter called 'the Road Safety Act, 2007') and seeking other consequential reliefs. Therefore, we have heard them together and propose to pass this common judgment.

2. Since the reliefs sought for in the writ petitions are slightly different from each other, we propose to narrate a short statement of facts of each of the writ petitions. The counter affidavit filed by the State Government in W.P.(C) No. 37880 of 2017 is adopted by the State Government in some of the writ petitions, and the counter affidavits filed by the State as well as the other respondents would be referred to appropriately.

W.P.(C) No. 37880 of 2017

3. The petitioner is the then President of Kumbalangi Grama Panchayat in Ernakulam District and is basically concerned with the increase of road and motor accidents occurring due to the negligent and reckless driving, and also due to the rash driving by drunken dri