Supreme Court of India

Nishan Singh & Ors. v. Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. through Regional Manager & Ors.

Neutral citation
Reported as [2018] 6 S.C.R. 795
Bench Dipak Misra, A. M. Khanwilkar and Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud JJ.
Decided 27 April 2018
Status Distinguished

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons mentioned above, this appeal is partly allowed.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 – ss.166 and 140 – Fatal acciden t – Victim-deceased was travelling along with her husband-appellant no.1 in the car driven by PW-2 – The car dashed against the truck which was running ahead of it – R esulting in death of victim-deceased – Claim petition – Tribuna l held that accident occurred due to rash and negligent driving by the driver of the car and concluded that truck driver and the insu rer of the truck were not liable to pay any compensation – High Court u pheld the order of the Tribunal – Held: PW-2 admitted that the subject truck was running ahead of the

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 not applicable

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