Supreme Court of India

National Insurance Co.ltd. v. Sinitha.

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Bench Asok Kumar Ganguly and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 23 November 2011

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What the Court ordered

For the above reason, we find no plausible logic in the wisdom of the legislature, for providing an additional negative bar precluding the defence from defeating a claim for compensation in Section 140 of the Act, and in avoiding to include a similar negative bar in Section 163A of the Act.

Judgment, page 28

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