B.D. Agarwal, J.

1. Motor Vehicles Law and Rules made thereunder provides stringent and elaborate procedure for granting driving licenses. If one seeks a licence to drive transport or public service vehicle the scrutiny and tests are more rigorous. There are more than enough penal provisions to stem errant and reckless driving cancellation of driving licence, punitive sentences for driving vehicles at excessive speed, dangerously, in alcoholic condition at all causing loss and damage to property and human lives. Despite these precautionary and punitive provisions in the law graph of traffic offence is not showing any sign of improvement. As per the statistics provided in Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India Reports, published by the National Crime Records Bureau, Govt. of India, there were 2,72,100 road accidents in the year 1996 claiming 69,800 precious human lives. Within a decade, i.e. in the year 2006 the number of road accidents shot-up to 3,94,432 and the casualty figure to 1,05,725 and bodily injuries to 4,52,900 persons. In the year 2007, number of road accidents and deaths in such accidents increased to 4,18,657 and 1,14,590 respectively. Despite the fact that d