Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 105 · Decided 5 May 1978
State Bank of India v. Shyama Devi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 105 · [1978] 3 S.C.R. 1009
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2476/1968
- Decided
- 5 May 1978
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, N.L. UNTWALIA, P.S. KAILASAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
OF INDIA v. SHYAMA DEVI May 5, 1978 (R. S. SARKARIA, N. L. UNTWALIA AND P. S. KAILASAM, JJ.). Vicarious liabilily.-··Legal principle which gorerns the 1:icario11s1liability of an .employer for the loss caused to a customer thro11gh the niisdefneanour or negligence of an by one Kapil Deo Shukhla, an employee of the bank and a close neighbour of the resprndent and a friend of her husband, C Bhz.g\vati P;asud. On a suspicion about the entries in the respondent'i- Vass Book- made by the employees of the Bank; which had been confirming, and ratifying them from time
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