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The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

§196Driving uninsured vehicle

Whoever drives a motor vehicle or causes or allows a motor vehicle to be driven in contravention of the provisions of section 146 shall be punishable [for the first offence] with imprisonment which may extend to three months, or with fine [of two thousand rupees], or with both [, and for a subsequent offence shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine of four thousand rupees, or with both].

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Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1798/1/aA1988-59.pdf, 3,740,289 bytes, sha256 be5bac90…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-30. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (Hh198859.pdf) — the English 'aA'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history and the Schedules excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.

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