Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 543 · Decided 2 December 1999
New India Assurance Company v. Shri Satpal Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 543 · [1999] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 149
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6926/1999
- Decided
- 2 December 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 147, 95
Headnote
B Motor Vehicles Act 1988-Section 147-Compensation for death­ Victim a gratuitous passenger-Claim under new Act-Whether Insurance Company liable-Held, Yes-third party risk includes gratuitious passenger- C Decision rendered under old Act not applicable-Motor Vehicles Act, 1939- s.95. accidental death of a girl child of 10 years while travelling in a truck, under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The D Tribunal passed an award for Rs. 25,000 and directed the Appellant to pay the amount with interest as the vehicle was covered under their Policy. Appellant filed an appeal before
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