Chennai. The big decision of the Madras High Court has come. The Madras High Court in one of its judgments said that if you are traveling in a car and if you become a victim of an accident with a drunken driver, then you will also be responsible for that accident. If the driver is drunk and you have not drunk alcohol, you can still face legal action.

This decision of the Madras High Court has come only in the case of an accident. In this case, a passenger was traveling with a drunk driver and they met with an accident. Later, a case of negligence was registered against him against which he had approached the High Court and sought quashing of the cases reported against him. However, the High Court dismissed the man’s plea, where a drunken driver had rammed three people, killing them on the spot and injuring three others. Two other people in the car were held responsible for the death due to negligence. At the same time, the police had registered a case of death due to negligence against the three people including the driver of the car. A woman and her brother were traveling in the car when met with an accident in which three lives were lost. He had sought acquittal from the case.

The court said equal responsibility of all the three accused
However, the court said, the three accused have equal criminal responsibility, who in a difficult time set out to travel with a drunken driver, simply because one man was driving and others were sitting. There is no difference in this. In this case, it was 3.30 in the morning and the accident happened near the beach for those who were drunk and after the party, it seems in itself that the driver may have been instigated to drive. In such a situation, a case is also made against him under sections 111 and 113 of the IPC.