Supreme Court of India
United India Insurance Co. Ltd., Shimla v. Tilak Singh and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
For the aforesaid reasons, we allow the appeal and set aside the impugned judgment holding that the appellant-insurance company is not liable to pay the compensation awarded to the claimants.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: ss. 147--Statutory insurance polic;r--Gratuitous passenger-Liability of insurance company-Held, insurance company owed no liability towards injuries suffered by deceased, a pillion rider, as insurance policy was a statutory policy and it did not cover the risk of death or bodily injury to gratuitous passenger-Motor Vehicles Act, 1939-s. 95. s.157-Failure of transferor to notifY the insurer of facts of transfer of ownership of insured vehicle-Reid, situation is nut different whether u/s 103- of 1939 Act or uls 157 of 19fl8 Act, in so far as liability towards a third
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Where later benches applied it
- 2012 Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. v. Surendra Nath Loomba and Others
- 2012 National Insurance Company Ltd. v. Balakrishnan & Another
Of those, 2 referred to
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