Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 209 · Decided 18 February 2009
Oriental Insurance CO. LTD. v. Angad Kol and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 209 · [2009] 2 S.C.R. 695
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1102/2009
- Decided
- 18 February 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, V.S. SIRPURKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
t Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 -Fatal accident- By goods carriage vehicle- Compensation. claim-Insurance Company denying its liability contending that the driver of the vehicle c was not holding valid licence-Held: Insurance company not liable to pay the compensation- It is proved that the offending vehicle and the driver did not possess valid licence for the same- Direction to insurance company to pay the claim amount, with liberty to recover the same from owner and driver of offending vehicle- Constitution D •· of India, 1950- Article 142. In a claim seeking compensation for
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