State's Failure To Control Political Parties That Instigate Hartals Is A Culpable Omission Of Its Sovereign Function: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court made scathing observations against political parties for instigating hartals, while upholding the payment of compensation of Rs. 7 lakhs to a driver who lost his eye in stone- pelting by an agitating mob owing allegiance to a political party which called for a hartal. The impugned order had treated the incident as a constitutional tort, holding the State and the...