Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 469 · Decided 7 April 2025
New India Assurance CO. LTD. v. SMT. Sunita Sharma and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 469 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 603
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5093/2025
- Decided
- 7 April 2025
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, K. VINOD CHANDRAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 141; Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
How the compensation payable under the Haryana Compassionate Assistance to the Dependents of Deceased Government Employees Rules, 2006 has to be dealt with in computing the compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - to the Dependents of Deceased Government Employees Rules, 2006 - In the present case, the High Court has deducted only 50% of the compensation under the Rules of 2006 from the amounts awarded in the Claim Petition under the Motor Vehicles Act - The Insurance Company pointed out
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