Hit and run, India
Rs 2,00,000 for a death. Rs 50,000 for a grievous injury. Paid even when the driver is never found.
That money is the Hit and Run Motor Accidents Compensation Scheme 2022. It does not ask you to catch the driver or sue anybody, and it sets no deadline. It asks for an FIR and the claim papers in the right form. This site writes the complaint that becomes the FIR, and the claim, free, in about ten minutes.
What the scheme pays, and how few people ask for it
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Rs 2,00,000
When someone dies
Paid to the family under the Hit and Run Motor Accidents Compensation Scheme 2022, made under section 161 of the Motor Vehicles Act. The driver never has to be caught.
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Rs 50,000
For a grievous injury
Paid to you under the same scheme. A fracture, a head injury, anything a doctor records as grievous hurt. You do not have to sue anyone, and it is not insurance.
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205
Claims filed in the whole country in a year
That is 2022-23, against tens of thousands of crashes that qualified. Almost everyone who missed out was stopped by the same thing: no FIR, and no Form I in the shape the Claims Enquiry Officer needs.
Amounts from the Hit and Run Motor Accidents Compensation Scheme 2022. Claim count as reported for financial year 2022-23. We are not part of the scheme, we do not decide claims and we do not pay them. The Claims Enquiry Officer for your revenue sub-division enquires into the claim, and the Claims Settlement Commissioner sanctions it.
How it works
Tell us what happened
About ten minutes of plain questions. The plate if you caught it, where and when it happened, and what you remember. No account and no fee.
Print the packet
A complaint addressed to the station that covers the spot you were hit, the section 63(4) certificate that makes your video admissible, and the compensation claim itself.
Chase it, with reminders
Emails on day 3, day 7, day 15, day 30 and on, each one carrying the exact letter to send if nothing has moved. Every email links back to your report page. One tap there marks the FIR registered or the claim filed, and the reminders for that step stop. Closing or deleting the report stops them all.
Start your report
Six short sections. Fields marked are required; everything else helps but can be left blank.
Seven documents and the reminders to go with them
Your answers go into every one of these. Print them, sign them, hand them in on the day the chip says.
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Day 0
Complaint to the station house officer
You hand this in at the station that covers the spot you were hit, and it is what the police turn into your FIR.
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Day 0
Evidence certificate, BSA section 63(4)
Signed with the fingerprint of every photo and video you kept, so a court can accept the files as genuine.
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Day 3
Letter to the SP or DCP, BNSS section 173(4)
Sent when three days pass with no FIR. It puts your complaint in front of an officer who has to answer in writing.
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Day 7
Magistrate application, BNSS section 175(3)
Asks a judicial magistrate to order the police to register the FIR and investigate.
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Day 15
RTI application
Ten rupees gets you the FIR number, the investigating officer and what has actually been done, with a 30 day deadline attached.
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Day 45
Hit and Run Scheme 2022 claim, Form I
The claim for Rs 2,00,000 for a death or Rs 50,000 for a grievous injury, filled out in Form I with the Form IV undertaking, addressed to the Claims Enquiry Officer for your revenue sub-division. The scheme sets no deadline, so day 45 is a nudge, not a cutoff.
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Day 150
MACT checklist
Every paper the tribunal asks for, in order, while the six month window in section 166(3) is still open.
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Every step
Reminder emails
An email on each of those days carrying the letter to send next. One tap on your report page marks a step done, and its reminders stop.
Live activity
Updated just now
- 0 Reports filed
- 0 FIRs registered
- 0 Compensation claims filed
- 0 States covered
Track your report
We email your report link the moment you file, to the address you gave us. Open that email and follow the link. It is the only way back in, which is also why anyone who has it can read your report, so keep it to yourself.
If the email is not there, look in spam and in promotions first. If it is really gone, write to grievance@hitandrun.report from the same address you filed with.
What this site is not
- Not a government site
- We are independent, with no ministry behind us and no power to decide anything.
- We cannot file for you
- No website can. You hand the complaint in yourself, or you call 112.
- Not a law firm
- The documents follow the law as we read it, and a lawyer may well draft yours better.
- Nothing gets published
- No public list of reports, no plate lookup, no page anyone can find, nothing sold.