Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 271 · Decided 26 February 2009
National Insurance Company LTD. v. Meghji Naran Soratiya & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 271 · [2009] 3 S.C.R. 875
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1171/2002
- Decided
- 26 February 2009
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, H.L. DATTU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 149(2), 170
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: ss. 149(2) and 170 - Permission granted by Tribunal to c insurer to contest the claim - HELD: On facts, does not call for interference - If the order granting permission required reasons to be recorded, on challenge, High Court could either set aside the direction to Tribunal ., to pass a reasoned order or itself consider whether the case D warranted permission - But under no circumstance permission by Tribunal to contest the claim can be equatetl to or treated as denial of permission merely on the ground that reasons were not recorded - Judicial
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