Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 954 · Decided 30 October 2023
Iffco Tokio General Insurance CO. LTD. v. Geeta Devi and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 954 · [2023] 14 S.C.R. 62
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 19992/2023
- Decided
- 30 October 2023
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, SANJAY KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 140, 166
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: After motor vehicle accident, it came to light that the driver of the vehicle had fake driving licence. The High Court opined that the petitioner-insurance company had neither pleaded nor proved that the deceased vehicle adequate steps to verify the genuineness of the driving licence and in the absence of such a plea on its part, the Tribunal could not have concluded that there was a breach of the terms and conditions of the insurance policy. Whether order of the High Court justifi ed. Motor Vehicle Act, 1988
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