New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Over two years after the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) replaced the Indian Penal Code, the provision to punish drivers who cause a death through rash driving and then flee (Section 106(2)) remains on the books but out of force. Recently, two high-profile crashes- one involving Sia, a motorcyclist hit on Gurugram's Golf Course Road in September, and the deaths of three people hit by a speeding Mini Cooper near Kerala's Nedumbassery in October- drew markedly different criminal charges, exposing the hole left by the dormant clause. The Gurugram police added an attempt-to-murder charge after examining CCTV footage, while Kerala police registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, in the absence of the pro...