The Supreme Court on Monday (November 10, 2025) said two back-to-back highway accidents, one in Telangana and the other at Phalodi in Rajasthan , claiming nearly 40 lives, many of them children, is “too much” to bear.

The Court directed the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Centre to explain why Indian roads continue to be such killers of innocents.

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“This is just too much. In two days, there have been two horrible accidents. Nearly 40 people have gone,” Justice J.K. Maheshwari, accompanied by Justice Vijay Bishnoi on the Bench, remarked.

The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the tragic highway accident in Rajasthan’s Phalodi, which killed 15 people , when a tempo traveller rammed into a

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