Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 128 · Decided 9 February 2018
Archit Saini and ANR. v. The Oriental Insurance Company LTD. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 128 · [2018] 1 S.C.R. 626
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7300/2016
- Decided
- 9 February 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s.166 - Fatal accident - Contributory negligence - Collision of car with the offending vehicle on the busy road causing death of driver and one person and injuring two others - Tribunal of eye-witness (PW-7) that the offending vehicle, the Gas Tanker was parked in the middle of road without any indicator or parking lights and it was a sole negligence on the part of the driver of the Gas Tanker - High Court modified the award on the finding that it was a case of
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