Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
35 Supreme Court judgments considering this law. Search within these.
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Sithara N.S. & Ors. Etc. v. Sai Ram General Insurance Company Limited
Issue arose whether the High Court erred in law in holding that the appellants failed to prove the involvement of the alleged offending vehicle.
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Preetha Krishnan & Ors. v. The United India Insurance Co. Ltd. & Ors.
Grievance of the claimant-appellants is w.r.t the application of split multiplier by the High Court, causing a significant reduction in the total compensation, as awarded by the Tribunal, vis-à-vis, the High Court.
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Its Chief General Manager v. Kashmiri Lal Batra & Ors.
Issue arose whether a stage carriage permit can be granted to a private operator on an inter-State route in terms of an IS-RT Agreement-Inter-State Reciprocal Transport Agreement executed by and between two neighbouring States…
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Hind Samachar Ltd. (Delhi Unit v. National Insurance Company Ltd. & Ors.
Challenge to the “pay and recovery” directions issued by the High Court in favour of the insurer and against the insured owner of the truck.
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S. Rajaseekaran v. Union of India and Ors.
Matter pertains to issuance of directions relating to road safety, safety of pedestrians while walking on footpaths, wearing of helmets, wrong lane driving and unsafe overtaking, use of dazzling LED white lights to help in…
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Shyam Lal v. Shriram General Insurance Co. Ltd. and Others
Whether the order of the High Court directing pay and recovery is sustainable.
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M/S Tarachand Logistic Solutions Limited v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.
Whether the premises of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant where appellant’s vehicles are exclusively used for handling and storage operations, constitute a ‘public place’ under the Andhra Pradesh Motor Vehicle Taxation Act, 1963; whether…
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Kavin v. P. Sreemani Devi & Ors.
Whether in the facts and circumstances of the case the High Court was correct in reducing the amount of compensation awarded by the MACT to the Appellant-claimant.
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Hitesh Nagjibhai Patel v. Bababhai Nagjibhai Rabari & Anr.
Issue arose whether the courts below failed to award compensation under the head loss of earnings to the minor appellant; and whether the High Court erred in granting an adequate amount of compensation under pecuniary and…
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Hanumantharaju B (Dead) by LR. v. M Akram Pasha & Anr.
Whether it would be just and proper, in the instant case, to accept 78% disability as assessed by the Tribunal appointed Commissioner; whether any amount receivable on account of PF, pension or insurance be deducted from the…
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Deep Shikha & Anr. v. National Insurance Company Ltd. & Ors.
The appellants challenge the common judgement and order of the High Court whereby High Court reduced the compensation payable to appellant no.1 and dismissed the claim in so far as it relates appellant no.2 in a case arising out…
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The Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Company Limited v. Smt. Honnamma & Ors.
Matter pertains to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court partly allowing the appeal of the respondents, enhancing the compensation and fastening the liability on the insurance company.
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Kamal Dev Prasad v. Mahesh Forge
Whether the High Court erred in reducing the percentage of disability as per the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 while determining the compensation.
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New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Kamlesh and Others.
Matter pertains to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court, enhancing the compensation to Rs.45,14,986/- and directing deduction of half of the compensation under the Rules of 2006, i.e. Rs.21,67,704/- out of the…
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Nidhi Bhargava & Ors. v. National Insurance Company Ltd. & Ors.
Whether the High Court was justified in reducing the compensation payable to the appellants from Rs.31,41,000/- to Rs.16,97,370/- maintaining the interest awarded at the rate of 9% p.a.
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In Re: Compensation Amounts Deposited With Motor Accident Claims Tribunals and Labour Courts v. Na
Issue arose in this suo motu writ petition with respect to the large amounts of unclaimed compensation lying deposited with MACTs and Labour Courts under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923.
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M/s Chatha Service Station v. Lalmati Devi & Ors.
Whether the Tribunal was justified in directing the insurer to pay the award amount and recover it from the owner and driver of the offending vehicle carrying hazardous goods, in view of the absence of an endorsement in the…
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New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Smt. Sunita Sharma and Ors.
How the compensation payable under the Haryana Compassionate Assistance to the Dependents of Deceased Government Employees Rules, 2006 has to be dealt with in computing the compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
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The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Gopu & Anr.
Matter pertains to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court enhancing the compensation awarded to the claimants under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
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Srikrishna Kanta Singh v. The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. & Ors.
Whether on facts, the Tribunal and the High Court erred in finding contributory negligence on the part of the driver of the scooter; whether contributory negligence could have been concluded on the ground of the scooter driver…
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Sunita & Ors. v. Vinod Singh & Ors.
Matter pertains to the adequacy of compensation granted to the appellants under Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
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Parminder Singh v. Honey Goyal and Others
Matter pertains to the enhancement of the amount of compensation granted to the appellant, aged 21 years, a veterinary student and State Level player in Volleyball who sufferred quadriplegia-paralysis of all four limbs after…
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Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation v. Mahadeo Krishna Naik
Whether the appellant-Corporation is guilty of suggestio falsi by not disclosing what it had pleaded before the MACT and suppresio veri by suppressing the award; whether the High Court was justified in exercising review…
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M/S S.R.S. Travels by Its Proprietor K.T. Rajashekar v. The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Workers & Ors.
Issue arose as regards the constitutional validity of the Karnataka Motor Vehicles Taxation and Certain Other Law (Amendment) Act, 2003 repealing the Karnataka Contract Carriages (Acquisition) Act, 1976 particularly given that…
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S. Vishnu Ganga & Ors. v. M/s Oriental Insurance Company Limited
Matter pertains to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court reducing the amount of compensation granted under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
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K.S. Muralidhar v. R. Subbulakshmi & Anr.
Matter pertains to the enhancement of compensation towards pain and suffering for a motor accident victim having suffered 100% disability.
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(Reliance Communications v. Commissioner of Service
Whether the mobile service providers who pay excise duties on various items for setting up their business more particularly for erection of mobile towers and peripherals like pre-fabricated buildings etc. can take the benefit of…
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M/S Bajaj Alliance General Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Rambha Devi & Ors.
(i) Whether a driver holding a Light Motor Vehicle (LMV) license (for vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of less than 7,500 kgs) as per Section 10(2)(d), which specifies ‘Light Motor Vehicle’, can operate a ‘Transport Vehicle’…
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Chandramani Nanda v. Sarat Chandra Swain and Another
Appellant-claimant, if entitled to enhancement of compensation.
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Sushma v. Nitin Ganapati Rangole & Ors.
The core issue involved in these appeals centres around the deduction of 50% compensation awardable to the appellant-claimants, who have assailed the concurrent findings of the Courts below on the aspect of contributory…
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Vaibhav Jain v. Hindustan Motors Pvt. Ltd.
Whether as a mere dealer of M/s Hindustan Motors, the appellant could be considered owner of the vehicle and as such liable, jointly and severally with M/s Hindustan Motors, to pay the compensation as directed by the…
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Meenakshi v. The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd.
Whether perquisites/allowances in the nature of house rent allowance, flexible benefit plan and company contribution to provident fund can be excluded from the basic salary of the deceased while applying the principle of rise in…
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Muthyala Sunil Kumar v. Union of India & Ors.
In the instant writ petitions, Petitioners-transporters and tour operators assailed the legality of different State Governments levying and collecting Authorization Fee/Border Tax, allegedly, in violation of All India Tourist…
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Alifiya Husenbhai Keshariya v. Siddiq Ismail Sindhi & Ors.
Whether a person being an award holder, of monetary compensation without actual receipt thereof, would be disentitled from filing an appeal seeking enhanced compensation as an indigent.
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Balveer Batra v. The New India Assurance Company & Anr.
The question of territorial jurisdiction was decided by the Tribunal after about 4 years since the filing of the claim petition and the appeal filed in 2010 was dismissed, confirming the dismissal of the claim petition after…