Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 209 · Decided 6 March 2018
Jagdish Kumar Sood v. United India Insurance CO. LTD. and Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 209 · [2018] 3 S.C.R. 17
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 240/2017
- Decided
- 6 March 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (as amended vide Amendment Act 54 of 1994 w.e.f. 14.11.1994 and further amendment w.e.f. 28/3/2001) - s.2(21) r/w ss. 2(15), 2(48) and 10(2)(d) - Death due to motor accident - Tribunal awarded compensation but absolved the insurer on the ground that in the accident was a Light Goods Vehicle - Tribunal held that in the absence of a specific authorization to drive a transport vehicle, the liability could not be fastened on the insurer - Held: The issue is covered by a judgment of a three Judge Bench of Supreme Court in Mukund
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