Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 434 · Decided 18 June 2020
Surendra Kumar Bhilawe v. The New India Assurance Company Limited
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 434 · [2020] 7 S.C.R. 39
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2632/2020
- Decided
- 18 June 2020
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, INDIRA BANERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 23, 24; Motor Vehicles Act Section 2(30), 157
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: ss. 2(30) and 157 - Damage to the insured vehicle in road accident - FIR lodged regarding the accident - Spot survey by Surveyor and Loss Assessor appointed by insurer - Insurance claim - Repudiated by insurer on the ground that the insured that there was delay in filing police complaint and reporting the accident to the insurer - Case of the claimant was that though Sale agreement was entered into but the vehicle was not transferred to the transferee as the financier Bank had not issued 'No Objection' to the
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