Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 1076 · Decided 16 November 2018
Vimla Devi & ORS. v. National Insurance Company Limited & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 1076 · [2018] 13 S.C.R. 753
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 11042/2018
- Decided
- 16 November 2018
- Bench
- ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, INDU MALHOTRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s.166 - Fatal accident - Claim petition - The documents filed in the criminal proceedings in respect of the accident were filed alongwith the petition - Tribunal dismissed the petition holding that claimants failed to prove the accident for want of since not exhibited, were of no use - High Court dismissed the appeal - On appeal, held: The Act is a beneficial piece of legislation - It relieves the victims from ensuring strict compliance provided in law which are otherwise applicable to the suits and other proceedings
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