State cannot claim sovereign immunity in Motor Accident cases-Says Delhi High Court

The already devastated legal heirs of deceasedaccident victims and their legal heirs involving its own
victim of the vehicle accident involving governmentvehicle on the ground they were doing a government
vehicle now, no longer have to run from pillar to postduty, thus, entitled to act in any manner as it is
to get compensation which is denied to them on thesovereign. No legal system today can place the State
ground of government vehicle engaged in so calledabove law as it is unjust and unfair for a citizen to be
sovereign duty and thus claim sovereign immunitydeprived of his life or property illegally by negligent
which is an archaic concept. No civilized country in thisact of employees or officers of the State without
world which claims itself to be founded on theany remedy.
notions of the welfare state, shun its liability towards