Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 4 · Decided 3 January 2001
SMT. Kaushnuma Begum and ORS. v. The New India Assurance CO. LTD. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 4 · [2001] 1 S.C.R. 8
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6/2001
- Decided
- 3 January 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 140
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act. 1988: Section 140. ;\/otor accide11t.1·-Compcnsotion-Clai111 for-Rule of Strict LiabiliZJ'­ C Applin1bility of-field: Is applicable. Motor uccide11ts-Compensatio11-·Cfai111 for- "No Fault Liability" and "Strief Liubi!izr" Distinction fren apart from "No Faull Liability" victim is entitled to get D compensation E F IVords and Phrases: "No Faull Liability "-Meaning of-In the contexl of S.140 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The appl'lhrnt's husband died due to the bursting of the front tyre of a
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