Union Home secretary to meet protesting truckers to resolve issue of new law’s hit-and-run provision: Report

New Delhi, 2/1: The Union Home Secretary is meeting protesting truckers in the evening amid a stir by drivers against the new law on hit-and-run cases, and the issue is likely to be resolved amicably, sources said on Tuesday.

Sources also said that truckers’ body The All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) has so far not given a nationwide strike call in support of the demand for the withdrawal of new stringent imprisonment provisions for hit-and-run accident cases .