Murderer On The Roads

How many more innocent lives are going to be lost before we can reign in these murderer's. Every day we hear of stories how lives are being lost as buses race against each other on our streets. What is more ironic is that the drivers go scot free (if they are not lynched by the crowd) without any sort of action taken on them.

There is enough provisions in our existing laws to punish these drivers if the police are allowed to do their work unhindered. But the unions like CITU who control everything in West Bengal presently, do not allow the drivers to be booked under harsher penal codes.

Section 308. Attempt to commit culpable homicide

Whoever does any Act with such intention or knowledge and under such circumstances that, if he by that Act caused death, he would be guilty of culpable homicide not amount to murder, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both, and if hurt is caused to any person by such Act, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.

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“bearing in mind the galloping trend in road accidents in India and the devastating consequences visiting the victims and their families, the quantum of sentence (for) rash or negligent driving, one of the prime considerations should be deterrence."

Thanks to police inaction, political patronage and union pressure rash drivers escape with a simple fine of Rs.500/- (under Section 279), or a minimum fine along with a few months imprisonment if booked under Section 304A (culpable homicide not amounting to murder)

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Unless the police and courts look from the victims angle they will never realize the devastating effect these accidents have on the families of the affected. The government has to abolish the commission system immediately. The root cause of the majority of the bus accidents is due to this reason. If this is possible in every city of India, why not here? Are the drivers earning any less in the other cities? Unfortunately (like in so many other issues) Buddha's government does not have the balls to go against their own members in citu. Its Govt-vs-Govt.