Madhya Pradesh Govt To Revoke Rule Exempting Women From Wearing Helmets, AG Tells HC [Read Order]
4 years, 10 months ago

Madhya Pradesh Govt To Revoke Rule Exempting Women From Wearing Helmets, AG Tells HC [Read Order]

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The State government of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday told a division bench of the high court that "an in-principle decision" has been taken for making helmets compulsory for women in the State. The division bench comprised by Chief Justice AK Mittal and Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla was hearing a plea filed by Himanshu Dixit, a student of NLIU Bhopal, concerned by the danger posed to female two-wheeler riders on account of Rule 213 of the Madhya Pradesh Motor Vehicles Rules, 1994, exempting women riders from wearing helmets. The impugned rule stipulates that Section 129 of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988, which mandates wearing a helmet while riding a two-wheeler, will not apply to women riders in the state. Dixit had relied upon various statistical data concerning the total number of fatalities caused to women two-wheeler riders in Madhya Pradesh, in order to highlight the alarming and disturbing figures of the total number of people losing their lives due to the non-wearing of helmets in the state.

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India TV News  

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