Prosecutions for traffic offences can occur under both IPC and MV Act due to independent jurisdiction.

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....Jurisdiction to handle Road traffic offences - a prosecution, if otherwise maintainable, would lie both under the IPC and the MV Act, since both the statutes operate with full vigour, in their own independent spheres. Even assuming that some of the provisions of the MV Act and IPC are overlapping, it cannot be said that the offences under both the statutes are incompatible.....