Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. N. Vijayaraghavan, Amicus Curiae Mr. Nikhil Menon, Adv. Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Ms. M.B. Ramya, Adv. Mr. Mohd Aman Alam, Adv. Mr. Siddharth, AOR Mr. Anshul Saxena, Adv. Mr. Harshit Manwani, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Singh, Adv. Mr. Jagdish Chandra, Adv. Mr. Niteen Kumar Sinha, AOR Ms. T. Archana, AOR Mr. Yusuf, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. S Prabakaran, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Usha Prabakaran, Adv. Mr. Maheswaran P, Adv. Dr. Ram Sankar, Adv. Mrs. Harini Ramsankar, Adv. Mr. M Naveen, Adv. Mr. Vasantha Kumar A, Adv. Mr. G Jai Singh, Adv. Mr. Muthu Ganesa Pandian, Adv. For M/S. Ram Sankar & Co, AOR Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G. (N.P.) Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Sinha, Adv. Mr. Navanjay Mahapatra, Adv. Ms. Garima Prasad, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sughosh Subramanyam, Adv. Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Samarth Luthra, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv. Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Ms. Shaswati Parhi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Shanker Jha, Adv. Mr. Nikhilesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Srinivasan M Bogisam, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Gautam, Adv. Ms. Devika Khanna, Adv. Mrs. V D Khanna, Adv. For Mr. Vmz Chambers, AOR Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Vidyottma Jha, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhagwati, Adv. Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Mr. Ravi Bakshi, Adv. Mr. Manvendra Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pramod Dayal, AOR Ms. Sayma Feroz, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Rushab Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv. Mr. Japnish Singh Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Ridhima J. Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Mr. Preet S. Phanse, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Lenin Singh Hijam, Adv. Gen., Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupam Ngangom, Adv. Mr. R. Rajaselvan, Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Ms. Akshata Chhabra, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, AOR Ms. Shrutee Aradhana, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vivek Jain, D.A.G. Mr. Siddhant Sharma, AOR Mr. Rajat Jain, Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Kushagra Aman, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Chandra Bhushan Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv. Mr. Sarathraj B, Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mrs. Deepa. S, Adv. Mr. Sheikh F. Kalia, Adv. Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv. Mr. Yashasvi Virendra, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. (N.P.) Mrs. Aishwariya Bahti, A.S.G. (N.P.) Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mrs. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mrs. Garima Prasad, Adv. Mr. Navanjay Mahapatra, Adv. Mr. Manish, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. S.N. Terdal, AOR, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar SharmaAdv. Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Akshay Gupta, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv. Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Kriti Gupta, Adv. Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Ms. Kavita Jha, AOR Mr. Rajeev Kumar Jha, Adv. Mr. Aditeya Bali, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Mr. Mridul Bansal, Adv. Mr. Naman Varma, Adv. Mr. Ashwarya Sinha, AOR Ms. Priyanka Sinha, Adv. M/S. Acm Legal, AOR Mr. Deepak Prakash, AOR Mr. Pawan Kr. Dabas, Adv. Mr. Sriram P., Adv. Mr. Vishal Somany, Adv. Mr. Kamal Singh Bisht, Adv. Mr. Raneev Dahiya, Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Vajpayee, Adv. Ms. Divyangna Malik, Adv. Ms. Vishnu Priya, Adv. Ms. Merlyn J. Rachel, Adv. Mr. Vardaan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Rahul Lakhera, Adv. Mr. Rahul Suresh, Adv. Ms. Manshi Sinha, Adv. Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR Mr. Ashish Kumar Tiwari, AOR Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, AOR Mr. Alok Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kush Goel, Adv. Mr. Ryan Singh, Adv. Mr. Suraj Pandey, Adv. Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR Ms. Kanishka Mittal, Adv. Ms. Vanya Agrawal, Adv.
ORDER
SLP(Crl) No. 9264/2019 & MA 194-195/2020 in C.A. No. 2476- 2477/2019:
1. Applications for impleadment are allowed.
2. The grievance of the petitioner and applicant is that Rule 150A of the Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 2022 (for short, ‘the Rules’) along with its Annexure XIII might come in the way of the Court exercising its power under Sections 168, 169 and 176 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short, ‘the Act’).
3. Mr. S Prabakaran, Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that Rule 36 is unwarranted as it will not facilitate a claimant to receive the money which he is entitled to, in a lumpsum, particularly in a case where the dispute is resolved through mediation.
4. As rightly submitted by Mr. N. Vijayaraghavan, learned Amicus, that Rule 150A merely deals with the procedure for the investigation of a road accident. Thus, it has no connection with the parent statutes, namely, Sections 166, 168, 169 and 176 of the Act. The said Rule has got a laudable objective, and has to be read along with Section 159 of the Act by which the information given regarding an accident would be treated as a complaint. It also addresses the question of limitation that
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