Summary:
Besides the death of the two children, three other children and the driver of the van suffered injuries. more-inA Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal has upheld the judgement of a Metropolitan Magistrate court sentencing a man to two years in jail for causing the death of two children. The convict had hit a school van after jumping a red-light signal at a T-point in northwest Delhi’s Kesav Puram in 2006. Dismissing the arguments, presiding officer of the Tribunal Special Judge Ashutosh Kumar said: “Jumping the red light in itself was a rash and negligent act on the part of the appellant. In his appeal against the Metropolitan Magistrate court judgement, the convict challenged the evidence of a Delhi Police ASI, submitting that he was not present at the spot at the time of the accident..