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BNS for hit-and-run cases
January 7 , 2024
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- The new Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) prescribes the harsher punishments for causing death in a hit and run cases.
- It treats hit-and-run accident cases as an aggravated form of the offence of causing death by rashness or negligence.
- Section 106 of the BNS will replace Section 304A of the IPC.
- It punished the causing of death by rash and negligent act that does not amount to culpable homicide.
- The existing section provides for a two-year jail term.
- First, the Section 106 prescribes a prison term of up to five years, besides a fine, for causing death due to rash or negligent acts;
- Second, it provides for reduced criminal liability for registered medical doctors of two years in jail, if death occurred in the course of a medical procedure.
- If the person involved in rash and negligent driving “escapes without reporting it to a police officer or a Magistrate soon after the incident”, the imprisonment may extend to 10 years and a fine.
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