Fuel supply hit due to truckers' strike, bunks turn away customers: All you need to know

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The on-going protests have caused heavy traffic jams on the highways, long queues at fuel stations in several states and a panic situation among the people.
As per the chairman of the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) President, Amritlal Madan, almost 60-70 per cent of all trucks are not on the roads right now due to the ongoing strike.

Why are the truckers protesting?

The provisions under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), which state that a driver who causes a serious road accident through negligent driving and flees without reporting the incident to the police or any administration official will face up to 10 years in prison or a fine of Rs 7 lakh, triggered strikes among the truck drivers.
The new law superseded the Indian Penal Code of the colonial era, in which the penalty for such hit and run cases was two years.

Which states are witnessing the protests?

The drivers are demonstrating strikes in some states, including Maharashtra, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

The proteststurned violent in the Kekri district of the desert state where a mob burnt a police vehicle and pelted stones at security personnel, leaving three injured, PTI reported.
Maharashtra, the truck drivers have been staging protests at various places, including capital Mumbai, Nagpur, Solapur, Dharashiv, Navi Mumbai, Palghar, Nagpur, Beed, Hingoli, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nashik, Gadchiroli and Wardha.
However, in a positive development, truck drivers have called off their strike in Maharashtra's Nashik district after the local authorities assured to look into their demands.

Petrol bunks run dry in these states

As the strike by some truckers' associations entered the second day,