Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 60 · Decided 5 February 2003
Rikhi Ram and ANR. v. SMT. Sukhrania and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 60 · [2003] 1 S.C.R. 872
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1578/1994
- Decided
- 5 February 2003
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, B.N. AGRAWAL, ASHOK BHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 94, 95, 103
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1939; Sections 94, 95, 103-A & 110: liability of Insurer to pay compensation to third party- -Insured vehicle transferred without any intimation to insurer-Effect on- Held, since compulsory insurance under C the Insurance Policy is for the benefit of third party/victim, by transferor or transferee of such vehicle. -.; Words and Phrases: 'Third party'-Meaning of in the context of D Insurance of a vehicle. Son of the claimant-respondents died in a motor cycle accident. The vehicle was insured by its original owner who sold it to the present owner­ appellant,
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