Supreme Court · 1962 INSC 38 · Decided 2 February 1962
The State of Rajasthan v. MST. Vidhyawati and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1962 INSC 38 · [1962] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 989
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 263/1958
- Decided
- 2 February 1962
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, J.L. KAPUR, M. HIDAYATULLAH, J.C. SHAH, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 300(1), 133(l)(c)
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 989 THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN v. MST. VIDHYAWATI AND ANOTHER (B. P. SINHA, c. J., J. L. KAPUR, M. HIDAYATULLAII, J.C. SHAH and J. R. MUDHOLKAR, JJ.) Tort-Suit for damages-Liability of State for tortious aci of its Bervant acting as such-Con•titution of India, Arts. 300 (I), 1)" a. 65. The respondent l's husband and father of minor respon­ dent 2 was on February 11, 1952, knocked down by a Govern­ ment jeep car rashly and negligently driven by an employee of the State of Rajasthan, while being taken from the repair shop to the Collector'•
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