Chapter XIII — Offences, Penalties And Procedure
Section 187 — Punishment for offences relating to accident
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988)
Text of the section
Punishment for offences relating to accident.—Whoever fails to comply with the provisions of clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 132 or section 133 or section 134 shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both or, if having been previously convicted of an offence under this section, he is again convicted of an offence under this section, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
Reproduced from the India Code text of the Act. Bracketed superscript numerals are the official footnote markers for earlier amendments.
Amended by the 2019 Amendment Act
In section 187 of the principal Act,— (i) for the brackets and letter “(c)” the brackets and letter “(a)” shall be substituted; (ii) for the words "three months", the words "six months" shall be substituted; (iii) for the words “which may extend to five hundred rupees”, the words “of five thousand rupees” shall be substituted; (iv) for the words "six months", the words "one year" shall be substituted; and (v) for the words “which may extend to one thousand rupees”, the words “of ten thousand rupees” shall be substituted. 71.
This is the amending instruction from the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act 32 of 2019), quoted verbatim. Read it together with the text above — the consolidated version is the section as it reads once these changes are applied.
Before you rely on this. The base text above is the Act as consolidated by the India Code, which predates the 2019 amendment; any 2019 change is shown separately rather than merged in. Later amendments may also apply. For anything official, read the current text on the e-Gazette or the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways site.
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