Court Directs Delhi Police for Special attention to Motor Accidents

As it was told in my last post that the increasing number of Motor accidents in the Metro has draw attention not only of the society , government but the judiciary has also a taken a serious view of it .



Recently Fresh directions were issued to the Police Authorities .

The Directions to the Police Authorities are as :-

1) The Director General of Police of each State is directed to insturct all Police Stations in hi State to comply with the procisions of Section 158 (6) of the Act. For this purposem the following steps will have to be taken by the Station House Officers of the jurisdictional police stations.

1). Accident Information Report in Form No.54 of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules .1989 (AIR for Short ) shall be submitted by the police (Starion House Officer) to the jurisdictional Motro Vehicle  Claims Tribunal , within 30 Days of the registration of the FIR. In addition to the particulars required to be furnished in Form No. 54, the police should also collect and furnish the following additional particulars in the AIR to the Tribunal : (i) The age of the victims at the time of accident (ii) The income of the victim (iii) The names and ages of the dependent family members . 

2) The AIR shall be accompanied by the attested copies of the FIR , site sketch/mahazar/photographs of the place of occurance , driging licence of the driver , Insurance police (and if necessary, fitness certificate ) of the vehicle and postmortem report (in case of death ) or the Injury/Would  certificate (in the case of injuries ). The names /addresses of injured or dependant family members of the deceased should be furnished to the Tribunal .


3) Simultaneously,  copy of the AIR with annexures thereto shall be furnished to the concerned insurance company to enable the insurer to process the claim .


4) . The police shall notify the first date of hearing fixed by the Tribunal to the victim (injured) , or the family of the victim (injured) or the family of the victim {in case of death } and the driver, owner and the insurer. If so directed by the Tribunal , the police may secure their presence on the first date of hearing .

The Positive thing is that The Delhi police have already started implementing the Claim Tribunal Guidelines. Beside the the Higher Judiciary have also kept an contunious eye on the new procedure and project .