Punjab and Haryana High Court seeks data on challans issued to females riding two-wheelers without helmet including Sikh women not wearing turban

The Punjab and Haryana High Court in the case Court on its own motion v. Chandigarh Administration & Ors. observed wherein the court has sought data from Governments of Punjab, Haryana and U.T., Chandigarh about the number of challans issued to females driving or pillion-riding two-wheeler vehicles without head-gear.

The court made the said development wherein hearing a suo moto petition initiated in the year 2017 on increasing road fatalities involving two-wheeler women riders without helmet, especially Sikh women not wearing turban.

The bench comprising of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Anil Kshetarpal was hearing the present matter.

The bench referred to the amendment carried out in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 w.e.f. February 15, 2022 substituting the earlier Section 129 of the Act.