New Delhi, July 15 -- The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to enforce Section 106(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, an unnotified provision relating to punishment in certain hit-and-run cases, holding that the decision whether and when to notify a statutory provision falls within the exclusive domain of the Central Government.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia rejected the petition filed by advocate Ritu Gauba, who appeared as petitioner-in-person. During the hearing, as the petitioner sought to support her submissions by citing political examples, the Bench orally remarked, "Don't make this a political ground."

The...