Several issues affecting society at large has been effectively addressed through public interest litigations filed before the Madras High Court and the Supreme Court by individual activists. At the same time, frivolous petitions have added to the burden of judiciary.
In the nineties it was common to spot reckless fish cart riders causing accidents in the busy thoroughfares of Chennai. These riders, mostly fish vendors and load deliverers, used to zoom past on tricycles that were illegally fitted with mechanised engines.
When the police and transport department officials failed to rein them in, a frail man, ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy, decided to take up the task of checkmating the violators. A former weaving master in the now defunct Binny Mills, Ramaswamy filed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition in the Madras High Court questioning how an illegally modified motor vehicle could be allowed to ply on the streets. The court promptly banned the mechanised fish carts in 2002................Read more
Source: The Hindu
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