{"id":263546,"date":"2022-03-12T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=263546"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:10:15","slug":"scc-online-weekly-rewind-episode-52-scope-of-consumer-protection-act-central-motor-vehicles-motor-vehicle-accident-fund-rules-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/12\/scc-online-weekly-rewind-episode-52-scope-of-consumer-protection-act-central-motor-vehicles-motor-vehicle-accident-fund-rules-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"SCC Online Weekly Rewind Episode 52 | Scope of Consumer Protection Act | Central Motor Vehicles (Motor Vehicle Accident Fund) Rules, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SCC Online Weekly Rewind Episode 52 ft. Nilufer Bhateja, Associate Editor is out now. The written episode along with the video episode can be watched and read below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SCC Online Weekly Rewind Episode 52 ft. Nilufer Bhateja\" width=\"1346\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EIuEVz-EVfY?start=89&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Supreme Court\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2018Business to business\u2019 dispute not a consumer dispute<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you someone who has availed Banking Services to expand your Business and planning to seek relief against the Bank under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986? As per a recent Supreme Court ruling, you cannot do so. The Court has held that the \u2018business to business\u2019 disputes cannot be construed as consumer disputes as the Consumer Protection Act revolves around \u201cbusiness-to-consumer\u201d disputes and not for \u201cbusiness-to-business\u201d disputes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Court was deciding the case where a person had opened an account with the Punjab National Bank, took overdraft facility to expand his business profits, and subsequently from time to time the overdraft facility was enhanced so as to further expand his business and increase his profits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In such circumstances, the Court held that this relation was purely \u201cbusiness to business\u201d relationship. As such, transactions would clearly come within the ambit of \u2018commercial purpose\u2019. It cannot be said that the services were availed \u201cexclusively for the purposes of earning his livelihood\u201d \u201cby means of self-employment\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/03\/consumer-protection-business-to-business-disputes-cannot-be-construed-as-consumer-disputes-sc\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can State discriminate between persons having experience in home State from those having experience in other States? Is there any intelligible differentia?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interesting ruling, the Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal challenging the decision of State of Rajasthan to place persons having experience in Rajasthan and those having experience in other States on different footings for extending benefits of State notification proving bonus marks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case relates to \u201cdiscrimination\u201d between candidates with experience in National Health Mission and National Rural Health Mission in Rajasthan as against those working outside of Rajasthan. Noticeably, the Government of Rajasthan had conducted several training programmes for the persons working with, pertaining to the peculiar working pattern in the rural areas of the State of Rajasthan including tribal and arid zones and such a training is mandatory and non-joining of the same would result in non-renewal of service contracts. It had been held by the High Court that <\/span><b>persons having special knowledge in working in the State of Rajasthan form a class different than the persons not having such experience of working in the State.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approving the findings of Rajasthan High Court, the Bench held,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201c\u2026every State has its own problems and issues and the persons trained to meet such circumstances, stand on a different pedestal.\u201d<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/02\/can-state-discriminate-between-persons-having-experience-in-home-state-from-those-having-experience-in-other-states-is-there-any-intelligible-differentia-sc-answers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>High Courts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Kerala High Court: <\/b><b>At odd hours, if wife continues making discreet phone calls with another man even after a warning by husband, would it constitute matrimonial cruelty? Ker HC decides<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While addressing holding that making discreet phone calls frequently by the wife with another man disregarding the warning of the husband, that too at odd hours, would amount to matrimonial cruelty, High Court also made another significant observation that normally matrimonial cruelty takes place within the four walls of the matrimonial home and therefore independent witness may not be available, hence the Court can even act upon the sole testimony of the spouse if found convincing and reliable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/03\/matrimonial-cruelty\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>P&amp;H HC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> :<\/span><b>In ever-evolving society, evolving law with it, time to shift perspective from didactics of orthodox society, shackled with strong strings of morality to one that values an individual\u2019s life: P&amp;H HC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While dealing with a matter regarding protection to live-in relationship, P&amp;H HC held that, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">every person in the territory of India has an inherent and indefeasible fundamental right to life flowing from Article 21 of the Constitution of India and the State is duty-bound to protect life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this matter, the couple was in a live-in relationship and were fearing for their lives and liberty, hence they had approached the Court.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High Court observed that, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cWe are governed by the rule of law and follow the Constitutional dharma. In the ever-evolving society, evolving the law with it, the time is to shift perspective from didactics of the orthodox society, shackled with the strong strings of morality supported by religions to one that values an individual\u2019s life above all.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/01\/live-in-relationship-8\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Allahabad High Court: <\/b><b>People using cyberspace to vent out anger and frustration by travestying key-figures holding highest office in country, is abhorrent and violates right to reputation: All HC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While dealing with a case wherein as per the allegations levelled in the FIR, a a morphed photo showing Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi shaking hands with dreaded and wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed was posted on Facebook in the name of Anil Sharma and said objectionable post in question was shared by the applicant, Allahabad HC observed that,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe internet and social media has become an important tool through which individuals can exercise their right to freedom of expression but the right to freedom of expression comes with its own set of special responsibilities and duties.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further the Court also expressed that,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPosting &amp; sharing unhealthy materials with unparliamentary language and remarks, etc. on social media without any solid basis cause a deleterious effect on society at large, ergo in order to protect reputation and character of individuals, it should be completely stopped.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/01\/posting-and-sharing-unhealthy-materials-with-unparliamentary-language-and-remarks-etc-on-social-media-without-any-solid-basis-cause-a-deleterious-effect-on-society-at-large\/\"><b>Read more<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chhattisgarh High Court<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>If husband brings home concubine due to which wife leaves house, would that lead to desertion by wife?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chhattisgarh High Court while addressing a case of divorce, expressed that, \u201cIf the husband keeps another lady; gives shelter to her; and proceeds to have child with the said lady and for that reason if the first wife has to leave the matrimonial home because of physical and mental torture meted out to her it cannot be presumed as a desertion on the part of wife.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this case, the wife was subjected to mental and physical cruelty and was forced to leave her matrimonial home as the husband had kept one concubine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/02\/24\/if-husband-brings-home-concubine-due-to-which-wife-leaves-house-would-that-lead-to-desertion-by-wife\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Legislation Updates\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Central Motor Vehicles (fifth Amendment) Rules, 2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued notification to mandate the procedure for detailed investigation of road accidents, the Detailed Accident Report (DAR) and its reporting, along with timelines for different stakeholders, for quick settlements of claims by the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal ( MACT).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, it has also mandated incorporation of\u00a0 validated mobile number in the Certificate of Insurance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/03\/procedure-for-detailed-investigation-of-road-accidents-and-detailed-accident-report-notified-vide-central-motor-vehicles-fifth-amendment-rules-2022\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Central Motor Vehicles (Motor Vehicle Accident Fund) Rules, 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Central Government has notified Central Motor Vehicles (Motor Vehicle Accident Fund) Rules, 2022 which will come into force on April 1, 2022. The Rules provides for\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Establishment of Motor Vehicle Accident Fund and <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Disbursement of fund for hit and run compensation under Section 161<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 161 of the Motor Vehicles Act provides for enhanced compensation for hit-and-run cases of death and injuries. Section 161 (effective April, 2022), as amended by the Motor Vehicles Act 2019, increased the compensation for death\u00a0 in hit-and-run cases from Rs 25,000 to Rs. 2 Lakhs; in cases of grievous injuries, the compensation was enhanced from Rs.12,500 to Rs 50,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 25, 2022, the Central Government notified the Compensation to Victims of Hit and Run Motor Accidents Scheme, 2022 which will come into force from April 01, 2022. The Scheme is issued in supersession of the Solatium Scheme, 1989. The Scheme provides for\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Constitution of Standing Committee and District Level Committee <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Procedure for making claim application<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Payment of Compensation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>To read the detailed report, refer SCC Online Blog<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/01\/compensation-to-kin-of-victims-of-hit-and-run-accidents-increased-w-e-f-april-2022-scheme-for-compensation-to-victims-notified\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>e-Filing Rules of the High Court of Delhi, 2021\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi High Court announced to make electronic filing compulsory and e-filing rules have been notified with the motive to reduce physical appearances in the Courts due to Covid and will continue to be applicable even after physical filing is resumed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/03\/electronic-filing-procedure-made-compulsory-by-delhi-high-court-vide-e-filing-rules-of-the-high-court-of-delhi-2021\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>National Financial Reporting Authority (Manner of Appointment and other Terms and Conditions of Service of Chairperson and Members) Amendment Rules, 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MCA has modified NFRA Rules relating to salary and various allowances for Chairperson and members of authority.\u00a0 Among other changes, the Rules are modified to increase the consolidated monthly salary of Chairperson from two lakhs fifty thousand rupees to four lakh fifty thousand rupees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/02\/mca-modifies-nfra-rules-relating-to-salary-and-various-allowances-for-chairperson-and-members-of-authority\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> Follow us on Social Media:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/scconline_<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scconline_\/<br \/>\nLinkedIn- https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/scco&#8230;<br \/>\nTelegram &#8211; https:\/\/t.me\/scconline<br \/>\nWhatsapp &#8211; https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/IFivYcauiEt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Nilufer Bhateja<\/strong><br \/>\nSCC Online Blog Reports: https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/search\/nilufer%20bhateja<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucknawiRooh<br \/>\nLinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nilufer-bhateja-99194a21\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCC Online Weekly Rewind Episode 52 ft. 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