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Section 4 in The Employee's Compensation Act, 1923 [Entire Act]
The Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2000
Section 4 in The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 [Entire Act]
The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2000
Section 173 in The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 [Entire Act]
National Insurance Co.Ltd vs Sinitha & Ors on 23 November, 2011
In Vinod's case (supra), after referring to the decisions of
the Apex Court in Deepal Girishbhai Soni v. United India Insurance
Company Ltd [(2004) 5 SCC 385], National Insurance Company
Ltd. v. Sinitha [(2012) 2 SCC 356] and United India Insurance
Co. v. Sunil Kumar [(2014) 1 SCC 680], a Division Bench of this
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Court in which one among us (Anil K. Narendran, J) was a member, held
that one who is the victim of his own action of rash and negligent driving
of a motor vehicle cannot invoke Section 163A of the Motor Vehicles Act
for making a claim for compensation. In the said decision, this Court
held further that Section 163A of the Act was never intended to provide
relief to those who suffered in a road accident only on account of their
own rash and negligent Act, not because of any rash and negligent act
of another person in using a motor vehicle. Paragraphs 23 and 24 of the
judgment read thus;