Driving Permit: The Central Government was instructed by the Supreme Court to get a driving permit

 Driving Permit: The Central Government was instructed by the Supreme Court to get a driving permit

Driving Permit: The Supreme Court considered whether a person with a light motor vehicle driving permit might lawfully operate a transport vehicle that weighs a certain amount.

The country's Supreme Court has instructed the Central Government on the legal requirements for obtaining a driver's license. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gave the Central Government until January 17 to consider a legal query. The Supreme Court questioned whether it is lawful for someone with a light motor vehicle driver's license to operate a transport truck that weighs a certain amount. The Central Government has received instructions on the legal provisions of this inquiry. The Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Justice PS Narasimha, Justice Pankaj Mittal, and Justice Manoj Mishra, who make up the five-judge Constitution bench, said that the process of amending the Constitution will need lengthy consultations with many parties.

The hearing is scheduled for the following year.

The bench said that we instruct the Center to go this procedure forward at full speed apart from this. We instruct all State Governments to follow the deadlines set out by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, as consultation with State Governments is intended.

The bench decided that the new date for the proceedings is January 17, 2024. By then, we anticipate that the discussions will be finished, and the Center should provide a detailed plan of action to the court. Attorney General R Venkataramani first made a remark on behalf of the Center, stating that instead of addressing the problem piecemeal, the Central Government is taking a comprehensive approach. He asked the bench to put an end to the proceedings permanently.

Can drivers of large trucks possess an LMV license?

Nevertheless, the Supreme Court decided not to postpone the hearing and set a date for January 17. Additionally, it was made clear that the Mukund Dewangan case's ruling will stand while the matter is pending. The legal issue of whether a person with a license to operate a light motor vehicle is legally permitted to drive a transport vehicle of a certain weight was previously posed to the Central government by the Apex court. Taking into consideration that these are policy matters impacting millions of people's livelihoods, the bench had said that the government need to examine the problem more closely and address it at the policy level. must go.

The top court had previously asked Attorney General R Venkataramani for help in addressing the legal matter of whether a driver licensed to operate a light motor vehicle is lawfully permitted to operate a transport truck up to a certain weight. The argument was that the 2017 ruling of the Supreme Court in the case of Mukund Dewangan v. Oriental Insurance Company Limited had been accepted by the Center and they needed to take the ruling into consideration. Accordingly, the Constitution bench had stated that it would be necessary to know the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways' position. The regulations were changed to conform to. A three-judge panel of the supreme court ruled in the Mukund Dewangan case that transport vehicles that have a gross weight of little more than 7,500 kg are not excluded from the definition of a light motor vehicle, or LMV.