Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 924 · Decided 15 December 2015
Gian Chand & ORS. v. Gurlabh Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 924 · [2015] 10 S.C.R. 1096
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 14731/2015
- Decided
- 15 December 2015
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, ARUN MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - s.166 - Application for c compensation - Motor accident- Rash and negligent driving by bus driver resulting in the death of school teacher- Claim petition uls. 166 by parents-Award of Rs. 25, 0001- under no fault liability by the tribunal holding that the accident was driver could not D be said at fault - High Court upheld the award - On appeal, held: Courts below committed grave error of law while arriving at the findings as to the method and manner in which accident took place - Reliable evidence on behalf of the claimants that the bus was driven in a rash
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