Referring to the last week’s car accident in Ahmedabad city which claimed nine lives, the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday said the civic authorities do not have the “guts and spine” to enforce traffic rules.
Had police carried out regular checks, the tragedy could have been averted, said a division bench of Justices A S Supehia and M R Mengdey.
The bench was hearing a contempt of court plea filed by Mustak Hussain Kadri against the Gujarat government and Ahmedabad city authorities for allegedly not complying with the directions passed by the HC on a public interest litigation he had filed on the regulation of traffic in the city.