Liability to Compensation under Motor Vehicles Act with Special Reference to the Amendment Bill 2019

Abstract

With the increased number of accidents, the government of India enacted the Motor Vehicle Act in 1988 which provides for various laws related to motor accidents, negligence, liability, insurance etc. This paper will mainly deal with the compensation under this act. It will talk about the different provisions in the Motor Vehicle Act dealing with the compensation to the victims. The accidents are numerous and the victims are mainly the pedestrians and the cyclist. The law requires giving compensation to these victims by the motor vehicle owners or the drivers.  This paper tries to present all the vowed viewpoints on a given aspect with copious references to the case-law.  The current study based on the empirical research. It is consisting of the scientific frame of research. It began with the finding of research problem based on the review of literatures. The major idea of the study is to collect the legal facts of particular area and to test hypothesis of a cause –effect relationship between variables. The sample size is . The data is refined finally reported as .  Based upon the results obtained there is an association between the gender and there is still pay disparity between men and women in India in this twenty first century. The study concludes that the law does not perform the way it is meant to be as the victims do not get compensated because they belong to the weaker group of the society. So, through the act of Motor Vehicle, 1988 the victims get compensated for the losses they suffer due to a motor vehicle.