Mangalore Police to Hold Sessions on Amendments to Motor Vehicles Act: This is What You Must Know

Police Commissioner Kuldeep Kumar R. Jain said that a separate awareness sessions on recent amendments to the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act and Rules will shorty be held at the four city traffic police stations to improve the service delivery of the traffic police.

Significant among the amendments include direction to insurance companies to designate within 10 days of the receipt of information about the accident an officer for settlement of claims related to the incident.

Within 30 days, the officer has to make offer of settlement to the claimants before the Claims Tribunal.

Among other amendments include increase in compensation to ₹2 lakh and to ₹50,000 in case of death and grievous injury respectively in a hit-and-run accident. It also mandates cashless treatment of accident victim within the first golden hour after the accident. The claimants of compensation are now entitled for compensation of ₹5 lakh in case of death and ₹2.5 lakh in case of grievous injury in an accident and they need not prove fault of driver.