Liability of insurer - Insurance company specifically charged a premium from insured for three persons excluding driver -Cannot be absolved from its liability on death of a person.

Citation

AIR 2017 SUPREME COURT 1734

SUPREME COURT

(From : 2015 AAC 2842 (HP)*

PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE , J. and R. F. NARIMAN , J.

Civil Appeal No. 4745 of 2017 (arising out of SLP (C) No. 23643 of 2016), D/- 29 - 3 - 2017

Mata Ram v. M/s. National Insurance Company Ltd and Ors.

Motor Vehicles Act (59 of 1988), S.147 - Motor accident - Liability of insurer - Insurance

company specifically charged a premium from insured for three persons excluding driver -

Cannot be absolved from its liability on death of a person. 2015 AAC 2842 (HP), Reversed.

 (Paras 9 , 10 , 11) 

Cases Referred

Chronological Paras

AIR 1996 SC 2054 : 1996 AIR SCW 2466