Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Death of husband and wife - Deduction of personal expenses - Four dependents of deceased couple i.e old parents and two toddler girls - In addition to married couple, negligence of driver also extinguished the life of family's third child who was in the womb of deceased at the time of accident - Appropriate deduction for..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Claim petition - Rejection of - Non-examination of author of FIR - Owner-cum-driver of car in which deceased was sitting is not only the author of FIR, but instead he is one of contesting respondents in claim petition who along with insurance company, is an interested party with a pecuniary stake in the result of case -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to aged parents - Liability of son - Petitioners are father and mother of respondent and they are aged 75 and 70 years respectively - Respondent is a driver and he has sufficient means to maintain petitioners - Son is under personal obligation to maintain his aged parents - It is a legal obligation not dependent on..........
Workmen, Section 3 -- Accident - Expiry of driving license - Liability of insurance company - License of employee/driver of lorry who met with an accident has not been renewed for a period of 3 years - Employer showed gross negligence in verifying the same - Employer has to, thus bear responsibility and consequent liability of permitting employee/driver to drive with an..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 439, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307, 341, 427, 109, 201, 202, 34, 120B -- Bail - Attempt to murder - Complainant alleges that all accused made an attempt to cause grievous injury to driver/complainant as well as occupant of car - What prevented police to get identification parade done immediately after arrest of accused, not..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 279, 304A, 338, 337 -- Accident - Rash and negligent driving - Collusion between bus and car - Accused/driver of bus has not denied the fact that he was driving the bus - Several persons had suffered injury and two persons had expired as a consequence of accident - Accused held, guilty of offence in question - Accused rightly convicted...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 23 -- Accident - Insurance claim - Damage to truck - Delay in lodging FIR - FIR was lodged within 3 days of accident - In case of major accident where said truck had turned turtle and fallen into a river, slight delay if any on part of traumatized driver to lodge FIR, cannot defeat legitimate claim of insured - Moreover, it is..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166, 149 -- Accident - Compensation - Liability of insurance company - Offending vehicle/bus was hired by Corporation under an agreement between it and bus owner - Vehicle was insured - Agreement clause that Corporation has no liability for fault, negligence, accident or other illegal acts of driver of vehicle - Insurance company liable to..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 163A -- Accident - Compensation - It is not relevant that person insured must be driver of vehicle but may well have been riding with somebody else driving a vehicle which resulted in death of person driving the vehicle...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 439, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 22 -- Bail - Recovery of 1450 intoxicating tablets - Three persons travelling on motorcycle signaled to stop and at that time bag lying between driver and person sitting to next fell on road - Whether petitioner can be attributed conscious possession of contraband, is..........
