Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
Section 194E — Failure to allow free passage to emergency vehicles — up to six months imprisonment or ₹10,000
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988) · inserted by the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019
Text as inserted in 2019
Whoever while driving a motor vehicle fails to draw to the side of the road, on the approach of a fire service vehicle or of an ambulance or other emergency vehicle as may be specified by the State Government, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with a fine of ten thousand rupees or with both.
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