Health Minister Satyendra Jain made a surprising announcement today as he revealed that Delhi Government has planned to initiate an incentive scheme to help the road accident victims. This fear stops them from not taking the suffering victim to the hospital.
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Meanwhile, the Delhi government has announced that it will launch a scheme to reward those who come forward to help accident victims.
Allaying fears about police questioning anybody who helped the victim, he said, “There is also a Supreme Court directive that such people who help accident victims can not be harassed or questioned”. The CCTV footage showed people passing him by but nobody coming to his rescue and one man even stealing his mobile phone.
The whole incident was captured on a CCTV camera installed near Meraj cinema where the victim Matibul was hit by a delivery van in the wee hours.
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The Delhi government will soon come up with a “Good Samaritan Scheme” under which people will be rewarded for taking road accident victims to hospital. “So, we will also publicly felicitate such people”, Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain said. “But there is a Supreme Court order which states that a person who helps an accident victim will not be questioned or harassed”. “I appeal to people to help the injured on the roads as it is a pious task to save someone’s life”, Jain added. There is also a Supreme Court directive that people who help accident victims can not be harassed or questioned.
