Using vehicle in unsafe condition
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Summary
Driving or allowing a vehicle with a defect you knew or should have noticed that makes it dangerous is punishable with up to Rs 250 fine. If that defect causes an accident with bodily injury or property damage, penalty may be up to 3 months imprisonment or up to Rs 1,000 fine, or both. Breach of road-safety/noise/air rules: Rs 1,000 for first, Rs 2,000 for later. Illegal carriage of hazardous goods carries higher fines and jail (first up to Rs 3,000 or 1 year; repeat up to Rs 5,000 or 3 years).
Example
Ravi drives his delivery van with a badly worn tyre he could have noticed. If stopped, he can be fined up to Rs 250 for driving an unsafe vehicle. If that tyre causes an accident injuring someone or damaging property, Ravi may face up to 3 months imprisonment or a fine up to Rs 1,000, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Any person who drives or causes or allows to be driven in any public place a motor vehicle or trailer while the vehicle or trailer has any defect, which such person knows of or could have discovered by the exercise of ordinary care and which is calculated to render the driving of the vehicle a source of danger to persons and vehicles using such place, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or, if as a result of such defect an accident is caused causing bodily injury or damage to property, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
(2) Any person who drives or causes or allows to be driven, in any public place a motor vehicle, which violates the standards prescribed in relation to road safety, control of noise and air-pollution, shall be punishable for the first offence with a fine of one thousand rupees and for any second or subsequent offence with a fine of two thousand rupees.
(3) Any person who drives or causes or allows to be driven, in any public place a motor vehicle which violates the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder relating to the carriage of goods which are of dangerous or hazardous nature to human life, shall be punishable for the first offence which may extend to three thousand rupees, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with both, and for any second or subsequent offence with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with both.
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