Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 431 · Decided 27 April 2018
Nishan Singh & ORS. v. Oriental Insurance Company LTD. Through Regional Manager & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 431 · [2018] 6 S.C.R. 795
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 10145/2016
- Decided
- 27 April 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166, 140
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - ss.166 and 140 - Fatal accident - Victim-deceased was travelling along with her husband-appellant no.1 in the car driven by PW-2 - The car dashed against the truck which was running ahead of it - Resulting in - Claim petition - Tribunal held that accident occurred due to rash and negligent driving by the driver of the car and concluded that truck driver and the insurer of the truck were not liable to pay any compensation - High Court upheld the order of the Tribunal -
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