Madras High Court today directed police authorities to ensure barricades on the roads were placed only at appropriate places with clear reflective material, so that drivers could find out their location while driving.
The first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayanan while giving the direction on a PIL filed I Prakash Raj, an advocate, also ordered the authorities to complete the exercise within three months and posted the matter for the compliance to November 27.
The petitioner contended that the barricades placed on the roads were becoming the source for road traffic accidents and sought a direction to erect traffic signals at necessary Junctions.
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"There are more than three or four barricades placed adjacently which make it difficult for the road users to turn and thrive their way on the road causing them great difficulty in driving the vehicles through traffic causing much mental agony and stress", he said.
The bench said that the necessity of placing barricades was to carry out security checks and to control the traffic which is the matter completely within the domain of police authorities and the petitioner cannot claim to install only traffic signals.
The bench while viewing that these barriers should be clearly visible at night times in its order observed that "it is possible only if the reflective stickers/ materials are affixed on the barrier in such a manner that even in the absence of day light, it is possible for the drivers to make out that the barriers exist.
