The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday ordered issue of notices to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA) and others on a petition seeking a direction to prevent false or manipulated motor vehicle accident related insurance claims.
A Division Bench, comprising Justice K.L. Manjunath and Justice S. Sujatha, passed the order on a PIL petition filed by the court’s Legal Services Committee.
The petitioner sought for a direction to the Home, Police and Transport Departments to submit Accident Information Reports (AIR) about the accidents that have occurred from April 1, 2010, till date to the jurisdictional Motor Accident Claims Tribunals as per Section 158(6) of the Motor Vehicles Act.
The possibility of filing false cases against insurers of motor vehicles by manipulating records or by “fixing of accident cases” could be eliminated by adhering to Section 158 (6) that mandates submission of AIRs to the tribunals, it has been contended in the petition.
