The Managing Director vs A.T.Narendiran on 20 February, 2008
In United India Insurance Co. Ltd., v. Smt.Muthumma and other reported in I 2000 ACC 403, the Karnataka High Court considered a case whether the Transport Corporation having accepted the liability on account of negligent driving of his driver can take up other contentions in the claim petitions. The facts of the reported case are that the claimants filed petitions for compensation stating that the driver of the Transport Corporation was responsible for the accident. The matter was referred to the Lok Adalat and settled. The Transport Corporation made the payments and a compromise was arrived at. Considering the objections raised by another claimant, that once the KSRTC has entered into comprise before the Lok Adalat in respect of two other petitions which also arise out of the same accident, the Court held that the Transport Corporation is estopped from taking up the contention that the driver of the jeep in which the claimant was travelling, was responsible for the accident. The Court at Paragraph 6 held as follows: