United India Insurance Company Ltd vs Nirmla Devi And Others on 24 September, 2019
(SC), cannot be taken as a precedent to conclude that
the Insurance Company would be liable to pay the
compensation even in respect of an unauthorized
passenger, in a goods vehicle, in the light of
categorical pronouncement of larger bench of the
Hon'ble Supreme Court in New India Assurance
Company Vs. Asha Rani, 2003 ACJ 1(SC) and National
Insurance Company Ltd., Vs. Baljit Kaur, 2004 ACJ 428
(SC). We therefore conclude that the Tribunal, in the
case on hand, was not right in directing the Insurance
Company to pay the compensation and giving it the
liberty to recover the same from the owner."