Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1484 · Decided 18 December 2008
National Insurance CO. LTD. v. Rattani and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1484 · [2008] 17 S.C.R. 1251
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7399/2008
- Decided
- 18 December 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 147
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s.147 - Gratuitous passenger >~ - Claimants travelling in goods vehicles as members of marriage party - Liability of insurer to pay compensation - c Held: Not liable. Evidence: FIR made part of claim petition - Held: Although allegations made in FIR not admissible in of claim petition, Court entitled to look into the same. D The deceased along with other injured persons were - travelling in a goods vehicle as members of a marriage "'" party, which met with an accident. An FIR was lodged against the driver of the vehicle for rash and negligent
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