Delhi to be no longer helmet free for woman.

Being a woman will no longer allow you a helmet-free ride in Delhi , writes The Daily Mail

After more than a decade of debate and dissent over the issue, the state government and the Delhi High Court made it clear that all women riding on two-wheelers will have to adhere to road safety laws – meaning they will have to wear helmets.

A bench of acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw on Wednesday gave the Delhi government two months to make changes to the law governing road safety, after its counsel said the state was planning to amend the rules.

It wasn’t compulsory till now under the law for women riding twowheelers in Delhi to wear helmets.

Despite a central government law making it mandatory for all two-wheeler riders to wear helmets, women in Delhi have been exempt from the rule since 1999.

Zubeda Begum, counsel for the government, told the court that they are now willing to take another look at that exemption.

‘Although the Motor Vehicles Act hasn’t made it optional for women to wear a helmet while riding pillion, the Delhi government had made it optional in its Motor Vehicle Rules of 1993,’ she told the court.