Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 164 · Decided 21 February 2017
Manuara Khatun & ORS. v. Rajesh KR. Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 164 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 789
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3047/2017
- Decided
- 21 February 2017
- Bench
- JASTI CHELAMESWAR, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - Motor accident - Compensation - Victim travelling as gratuitous passenger in the offending vehicle which was found involved in causing accident due to negligence of its driver - Liability of Insurance Company of the offending vehicle - Held: Claimants are entitled for an offending vehicle to pay the awarded sum to the claimants and then to recover the said amount from the insured, owner of the ·offending vehicle in the same proceedings. Allowing the appeals, the Court HELD: 1.1 It cannot be said that the law laid down in *Saju P. Paul's Case cannot be
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