IPC Section 304AA: Causing Death Or Injury By Driving A Public Service Vehicle While In A State Of Intoxication

IPC Section 304AA: Causing Death Or Injury By Driving A Public Service Vehicle While In A State Of Intoxication

Whoever, while in a state of intoxication, drives or attempts to drive a public service vehicle and causes the death of any person not amounting to culpable homicide, or causes any bodily injury likely to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine, as if the act by which death or bodily injury is caused, is done with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death or cause such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.

Explanation:- “Public service vehicle” means any motor vehicle used or adapted to be used for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward, and includes a maxicab, a motorcab, contract carriage and stage carriage”.

[Vide Himachal Pradesh Act 19 of 1997, sec. 2].

In Section 304-AA of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, in its application to the State of Himachal Pradesh,

(a) for the words “a public service vehicle” where ever these occur, the words “any vehicle” shall be substituted; and

(b) the Explanation shall be omitted.

[Vide Himachal Pradesh Act 7 of 2012, sec. 2].

-Text In Indian Penal Code