Owner of vehicles with tinted glass may soon, not be eligible to claim insurance for it, in case it meets with an accident.
As per a report, the Union Road Ministry has written to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), asking it to disallow owners from claiming insurance for vehicles whose windows and windscreens are darker than permitted. The ministry says that tinted glass or solar films in vehicles would be considered a violation of the warranty conditions in the insurance policy.
The Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989 says that the windscreen and rear window of a vehicle must have atleast 70% visual light transmission. For side windows, it should be at least 50%.
The Union Road Transport Minister Shri C.P. Joshi wrote a letter to all chief ministers asking them to start a drive against tinted glass in their respective states.
“All of us have been watching with deep concern and anguish the repeated incidents of crimes against women in vehicles, most of which had tinted glasses or solar films," said the letter.
The letter came in the backwash of the infamous Delhi gang rape, in which a paramedical student lost her life after being brutalised in a moving bus that had tinted windows.
“Registration of vehicles, which continue to violate the rules notwithstanding the suspension of registration, may be cancelled. Issuing challans to offenders is not a solution to the problem of tinted glass", Shri Joshi wrote.
Furthermore, he wrote, “Whenever a vehicle with tinted glass is found (to be) involved in a crime, or causes damage to another vehicle or bodily harm to a third party, the vehicle must be impounded by the law enforcement authorities of the states and maximum penalty provided for in the MV (Motor Vehicles) Act must be imposed on the offending vehicle owner."
“Ideally, all officers of the traffic police should be equipped with a handheld device which when fed with the offending vehicle's registration number, should reveal data on its past challans (or offences). But none of the state traffic police can afford such devices," said a transport official.
In an another idea, which the road transport ministry has conceptualized to track down repeat offenders, an officer will only have to send a text message with the offending car's registration number to the National Informatics Centre (NIC). The NIC will send information related to the past offences of the vehicle to the mobile number from where the query came.
As per a report, the Union Road Ministry has written to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), asking it to disallow owners from claiming insurance for vehicles whose windows and windscreens are darker than permitted. The ministry says that tinted glass or solar films in vehicles would be considered a violation of the warranty conditions in the insurance policy.
The Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989 says that the windscreen and rear window of a vehicle must have atleast 70% visual light transmission. For side windows, it should be at least 50%.
The Union Road Transport Minister Shri C.P. Joshi wrote a letter to all chief ministers asking them to start a drive against tinted glass in their respective states.
“All of us have been watching with deep concern and anguish the repeated incidents of crimes against women in vehicles, most of which had tinted glasses or solar films," said the letter.
The letter came in the backwash of the infamous Delhi gang rape, in which a paramedical student lost her life after being brutalised in a moving bus that had tinted windows.
“Registration of vehicles, which continue to violate the rules notwithstanding the suspension of registration, may be cancelled. Issuing challans to offenders is not a solution to the problem of tinted glass", Shri Joshi wrote.
Furthermore, he wrote, “Whenever a vehicle with tinted glass is found (to be) involved in a crime, or causes damage to another vehicle or bodily harm to a third party, the vehicle must be impounded by the law enforcement authorities of the states and maximum penalty provided for in the MV (Motor Vehicles) Act must be imposed on the offending vehicle owner."
“Ideally, all officers of the traffic police should be equipped with a handheld device which when fed with the offending vehicle's registration number, should reveal data on its past challans (or offences). But none of the state traffic police can afford such devices," said a transport official.
In an another idea, which the road transport ministry has conceptualized to track down repeat offenders, an officer will only have to send a text message with the offending car's registration number to the National Informatics Centre (NIC). The NIC will send information related to the past offences of the vehicle to the mobile number from where the query came.
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