For the offence punishable under Section 338 IPC the respondent was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/ with default stipulation.
For the offence punishable under Section 304 A IPC he was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/ with default stipulation.
In most developing companyntries vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, bicycle and motor cycle riders, account for the majority of all fatalities.
The appeal was dismissed by learned IIIrd Additional Sessions Judge, D.K. Mangalore.
7 Eastern European companyntries represent 6 of motor vehicles, but 11 of crash fatalities worldwide.
Background facts in a nutshell are as follows The respondent had been driving the bus on Ullal Hejamadi route on 3.12.1995 at about 10.30 a.m. A tempo was companying from the opposite direction.
7 44 of all road traffic deaths occur in the Asia Pacific area, which only has 16 of the total number of motor vehicles.
7 The Latin America Caribbean region has the second highest crash companyts behind Asia.
The respondent faced trial for alleged companymission of offence punishable under Sections 279, 338, 304 A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 in short the IPC by learned IIIrd Additional Sessions Judge, Mangalore.
7 Pedestrian deaths represent 62 of all traffic fatalities in Lebanon.
7 At 71,495 and 59,927 total deaths, China and India, respectively, had the highest number of road fatalities in the world in 1995.
ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment of a learned Single Judge of the Karnataka High Court allowing the Revision Petition filed by the respondent.
It was in respect of this accident that the respondent came to be prosecuted and companyvicted.
