The Madras High Court recently directed the State government to re-look the scheme for payment of compensation to victims in hit-and-run cases. Noting that the compensation that was currently being.
India News: Delhi had the highest number of deaths due to accidents among cities with a population of over a million last year, according to a report by the Union
Bhubaneswar: Wary of the poor response to compensation schemes for victims of hit-and-run crashes, the transport department has asked district collect.
India has introduced a proposed law that would impose a 10-year jail term on individuals involved in hit-and-run cases who fail to report the incident to police. The law, part of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, seeks to replace the colonial-era Indian Penal Code. Currently, hit-and-run cases are registered under various sections of the IPC, with the punishment for causing death due to rash and negligent driving being two years. The proposed law also includes provisions for defining snatching as a crime for the first time and extends police detention powers to 60 or 90 days. | Latest News India
The July 20 Jaguar car crash in Ahmedabad has brought back the horror of a 2013 incident - which incidentally took place just 4 km away - into the public memory. With cars getting fancier, and rash driving rampantly continuing among young drivers, the more things change the more they stay the same.