Supreme Court asks NHAI to consider setting up CCTVs, monitoring rooms at toll plazas

Taking exception to encroachment and stationary vehicles on highways, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the National Highways Authority of India to explain why it cannot install a surveillance camera system and monitoring rooms across toll plazas to deal with menace.

“Why can’t you think of having a camera surveillance system? You can have monitoring rooms at all toll plazas,” a Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta told the NHAI counsel.

The top court was hearing a suo motu PIL initiated in 2025 following the tragic road accident on November 2 near Mathoda, in Phalodi district in Rajasthan that claimed 15 lives and left many seriously injured, followed by another unfortunate accident on November 3 on Mirjalguda-Khanapur road near Chevella in Rangareddy district of Telangana resulting in loss of 19 lives.