Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 172 · Decided 2 March 2011
Kusum Lata & ORS. v. Satbir & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 172 · [2011] 3 S.C.R. 480
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2269/2011
- Decided
- 2 March 2011
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142, 136; Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: c s. 166 - Fatal motor accident - Claim petition - Appreciation of evidence - Claim disallowed by Tribunal as a/so by High Court on the ground that in the FIR the nu ...... ber of offending vehicle and the name of the driver were not mentioned - HELD: In motor accident the case like in a criminal trial - Courts must keep this distinction in mind - In the instant case, the incident was witnessed by the brother of the deceased and a co-villager- The brother of victim rushed him to hospital while the co-villager chased the offending vehicle and caught the driver
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