Supreme Court of India
Raj Kumar Das (d) Thr. Lrs. v. National Insurance Co. Ltd.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above discussion, the judgment s of the MACT and the High Court are set aside.
Judgment, page 13
From the headnote
was that no independent witnesses were examined by the original claimant to corroborate the accident. This being a case where the original claimant has himself deposed to the occurrence and his testimony has not been shaken in cross-examination, his claim cannot be rejected solely for want of additional evidence. This Court in Sunita and others v. Rajasthan State Road Transport . . @ SLP (CIVIL) NO. 3585 OF 2023 Page 8 of 14 Corporation and others5 made an observation in this regard: “34. …The approach in examining the evidence in accident claim cases is not to find fault with non-examination
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