Supreme Court of India

National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Kaushalya Devi and Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 8 S.C.R. 500
Bench S.S. Sinha and V.S. Sirpurkar JJ.
Decided 13 May 2008

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above analysis the following situations emerge:.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

t Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - ss. 3, 4, 10 and 149 - Motor accident - By goods vehicle - Causing death of passenger c travelling therein - Claim for compensation - Granted by Tri- bunal holding the Insurance company liable to pay - High Court holding Insurance Company not liable - However, since awarded amount already deposited, directed the release thereof in favour of claimant with liberty to Insurance Com- pany to recover it from the owner of offending vehicle - On >-~, appeal, held: The owner alone was liable to pay the compen- sation as driver of the offending vehicle was not holding

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to

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