Supreme Court of India

N. K. V. Bros (p) Ltd. v. M. Karumai Ammal and Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [1980] 3 S.C.R. 101
Decided 21 March 1980

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Mo1or Vehicles Act-Driver of bus acquitted for rash and negligent driv­ ing-Civil suit if must also be dismissed. Indian Penal Code-Section 304A-Requirement of culpable rashness more drastic than negligence sufficient under the law of tort to c1·eate liqbility. The petitioner's bus driven by a driver hit an over-hanging high tension wire resulting in the death of some passengers and loss of limb to several othen. The driver was acquitted on the ground that the tragedy was an act of God. The Accidents Tribunal held that despite the screams of the passen­ gers about the doogerous over-hanging

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