Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 580 · Decided 30 September 2021
United India Insurance CO. LTD. v. Sushil Kumar Godara
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 580 · [2021] 9 S.C.R. 251
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5887/2021
- Decided
- 30 September 2021
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, S. RAVINDRA BHAT, BELA M. TRIVEDI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 379; Motor Vehicles Act Section 39, 192
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: ss.39 and 192 - Insurance claim - Repudiation of - Respondent-complainant obtained an insurance policy for his Bolero car, in Punjab, though he was a resident of Rajasthan - The vehicle had a temporary registration (from 20-06-2011 to 19-07-2011) outside his residence, to Jodhpur, in his car, and stayed overnight in a guest house and parked the car outside the guest house premises in Jodhpur - Next morning, he discovered that the car was stolen - Claim for loss - Held: When an insurable incident occurs that
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