Drivers of economic autos, together with vehicles and tankers staged protests in a number of elements of the nation against the new law concerning hit-and-run cases on Monday. The Central authorities just lately modified the colonial-era legal legal guidelines growing jail phrases in hit-and-run cases. The transfer triggered truckers’ protests throughout the nation.
What the new law says
Under the new law, the jail time period elevated from as much as two years to as much as ten years for the drivers in the event that they run away from the accident spot.
As per the new law, hit-and-run cases can appeal to a 10-year jail time period and a nice of Rs 7 lakh, mentioned Pramod Sikarwar, who was protesting at Board Office Square in Bhopal.
“The new law is against the interest of drivers. Drivers don’t want to kill anybody, but accidents happen. In such cases, people turn against the driver. We demand that the new law be amended,” he mentioned.
The business drivers have been objecting to the modification in Section 304A of the IPC (inflicting loss of life by negligence) since its graduation.
While highway blockades have been seen in some locations within the nation on account of protests by drivers, lengthy queues have been witnessed at some petrol pumps on account of panic over gas provide.
In Bhopal, drivers staged an agitation at Lalghati and stopped metropolis buses and autos, and a few protestors additionally gathered at Board Office Square in MP Nagar.
In Indore, buses have been parked on the highway at Gangwal bus stand as a part of the protest.
“The new law in hit-and-run cases will apply to all vehicles and not to tankers or trucks alone. There are problems at some places and people are scrambling to store fuel in panic,” mentioned Ajay Singh, president of the Madhya Pradesh Petroleum Association.
Truck drivers block NH 2 in Bengal
On new year-eve, tons of of truck and business car drivers protesting the new penal legal guidelines for hit-and-run cases blocked the nationwide freeway quantity 2 close to Dankuni toll plaza in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Sunday for round two hours, police mentioned.
They began blocking the highway at round 10.30 am at Chanditala by burning tyres and parking their autos in the course of the highway, the police mentioned.
Senior law enforcement officials from Chanditala and Dankuni police stations rushed to the spot to influence truck drivers to elevate the blockade.
The police cleared the highway blockade and the motion of autos began at 12.50 pm, an officer mentioned.
(With PTI inputs)
