Guarantee provide of kid helmets, security harnesses: Karnataka High Court

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday handed an order to the state authorities to take steps to make sure availability of crash helmets and security harnesses to be worn by younger youngsters whereas driving pillion on two-wheelers available in the market in adequate numbers.

The division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C M Poonacha handed the order for making security devices obtainable to implement the rule that makes carrying of those security devices obligatory, whereas disposing of the general public curiosity litigation filed by Archana Okay Bhat, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at a non-public faculty in Shivamogga.

The security devices for kids had been launched by Section 138(7) of the Central Motor Vehicle (Second Amendment) Rules, 2022, which was notified on February 15, 2022, below Section 129 of the Motor Vehicles Act.

The courtroom granted six months to the state authorities authorities for implementing the rule after making certain the protection devices available in the market.

This aside, the courtroom directed the authorities of the state to proceed consciousness programmes in regards to the new rule, which mandates a motorbike rider to make sure that a toddler between the ages of 9 months and 4 years, carried as a pillion rider, has to put on a crash helmet and security harness compulsorily.

Earlier to this, the transport division knowledgeable the courtroom that the producers of those new security devices required time as they should bear assessments earlier than promoting them available in the market.