New Delhi: Delhi Excessive Court docket on Wednesday requested the authorities involved to behave strictly in opposition to unauthorised becoming of crash guards or bull bars on autos.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said that “crash guards and bull bars on motor autos usually are not allowed and the federal government companies shall implement the provisions of legislation rigorously as spelled out beneath the Motor Automobiles Act.”
The ministry of street transport and highways had in December 2017 issued a notification and directed all states to take stern motion in opposition to unauthorised fittings on autos. In 2018, the excessive court docket had stayed the Centre’s notification, which led to a freeze in issuance of challans in opposition to the offending autos. Nevertheless, the keep was later vacated by the excessive court docket in 2019.
The Centre’s standing counsel, Anil Soni, said that crash guards and bull bars may trigger grievous accidents to pedestrians if the car hit them. If a car with crash guard meets with an accident, the airbags is not going to open and this raises issues of safety, he added.
The court docket was listening to a plea by Aarshi Kapoor and Sidharth Bagla, represented by advocate Anil Kumar Aggarwal. The plea claimed that whereas these bumpers would possibly look fashionable, in high-speed accidents, these would defeat the in-built security options of the automotive, leading to critical and deadly accidents.
One other plea earlier than the court docket was by one Mohammed Arif, who claimed to be a producer and seller of crash guards and bull bars and had challenged the ministry’s 2017 advisory to the states. He argued the Centre’s resolution had no legality as there was no rule, legislation or bye-law coping with equipment reminiscent of crash guards or bull bars.
The seller additionally mentioned that “bull bars don’t fall beneath the purview of part 52 of the Motor Car Act, as a result of the part pertains to modification in a car and never with after-market fitments.”
