Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 395 · Decided 24 August 2001
M.S. Grewal and ANR. v. Deep Chand Sood and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 395 · [2001] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 156
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9738/1996
- Decided
- 24 August 2001
- Bench
- AJAY PRAKASH MISRA, U.C. BANERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC
Headnote
Negligence-School-Picnic organised by-Negligence of teachers­ Vicarious liability of school-Picnic on bank of river-Students allowed to C stray. down stream and enter unchartered water-Drowning-Death of fourteen students-Writ by parents of deceased children-School held vicariously of-Difference between negligence and D inadvertence. Teacher-Students under charge-Duty of care towards students. In a picnic organised by a school on the bank of a river death of 14 students occurred due to drowning because of utter and callous neglect of teachers on duty. In the
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