Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 199 · Decided 4 April 2006
United India Insurance CO. LTD., Shimla v. Tilak Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 199 · [2006] 3 S.C.R. 758
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2291/2000
- Decided
- 4 April 2006
- Bench
- B.N. SRIKRISHNA, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 147, 95, 157
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: ss. 147--Statutory insurance polic;r--Gratuitous passenger-Liability C of insurance company-Held, insurance company owed no liability towards injuries suffered by deceased, a pillion rider, as insurance policy was a statutory policy and it did not cover the risk of death 95. D s.157-Failure of transferor to notifY the insurer of facts of transfer of ownership of insured vehicle-Reid, situation is nut different whether u/s 103-A of 1939 Act or uls 157 of 19fl8 Act, in so far as liability towards a third person is concerned-s.157 provides that certificate of
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