Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 47 · Decided 16 January 2007
Oriental Insurance CO. LTD. v. Jhuma Saha and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 47 · [2007] 1 S.C.R. 979
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 280/2007
- Decided
- 16 January 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 147(l)(b), 166, 147, 147(1)(b)
Headnote
B Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s.147(l)(b) read with s.166-Third party insurance-Vehicle met with accident-Resulting in death of owner driving the vehicle-Held, · additional premium for entire risk of death or bodily injury to owner not c having been paid, S-l 47(J)(b) which covers risk of a __, ... An insured vehicle, which was being driven by its owner, dashed D _/ . against a tree and as a result of the said accident the owner died. The claim -I petition under section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 was resisted -4 by the insurer on the ground that since the insurance policy
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