Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 472 · Decided 3 August 2010
Bimlesh & ORS. v. New India Assurance CO. LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 472 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 605
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2164/2004
- Decided
- 3 August 2010
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 163A, 166, 168, 169
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - ss. 163A, 166, 168 and 169 - Motor accident - Claim for compensation u/s. 163-A - For A B the death of owner of the vehicle - Maintainability of the C petition questioned - Tribunal holding that petition was maintainable - High Court holding the same as not maintainable in a claim petition, is required to decide all the issues in one go and not in piecemeal - The question of maintainability is o connected with the liability of the Insurance Company - Therefore, the matter is sent back to claims tribunal to decide all the issues together. Owner of the insured
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)