The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Auxiliary) in Vadodara awarded Rs.10,57,700 to the claimant, apportioning negligence 60% to the trailer driver and 40% to the truck driver. Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. appealed the award, arguing that the trailer driver should bear 100% negligence under the Motor …
The claimants filed a motor accident claim after a luxury bus collided with a stationary truck on a highway at 03:30 a.m. on 12 June 2015, resulting in a fatal injury. The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal awarded compensation and apportioned negligence equally, holding both the bus driver and the …
The claimants filed a motor accident claim after a luxury bus collided with a stationary truck on a highway at 03:30 a.m. on 12 June 2015, resulting in a fatal injury. The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal awarded compensation and apportioned negligence equally, holding both the bus driver and the …
The Supreme Court examined whether a holder of a licence to drive a light motor vehicle (LMV) must obtain a separate endorsement to drive a transport vehicle of the same class. By interpreting the definitions in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, particularly section 2(21) and section 10(2)(d), the Court …
The Supreme Court, in response to numerous applications seeking clarification or modification of its 27 April 2012 judgment, reaffirmed that Rule 100 of the Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 bars the use of any black film or other material on safety glasses, windscreens or side glasses of vehicles, …
The petitioner, a public‑spirited citizen, filed a writ petition under Article 32 seeking a direction that all motor vehicles in India be fitted only with safety glass having 100% visual light transmission (VLT) and that the use of black films on vehicle windshields and side windows be prohibited. …
The Supreme Court examined the persistent failure of several State Governments and Union Territories to implement the High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) scheme mandated under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The petitioners sought enforcement of the statutory provisions and earlier Supreme Court …
The Supreme Court examined the implementation of the High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) scheme introduced under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and the Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989. While earlier judgments upheld the Central Government's power to issue the scheme, many states failed to comply, …
The case concerned a claim for compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 arising from an accident involving an auto‑rickshaw that was insured as a goods‑carrying public carrier. The insurer, New Indian Assurance Co., argued that it should not be liable because the driver, Salim Amadbhai, held …
Maninderjit Singh Bitta filed a writ petition seeking the implementation of the High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) scheme, which the Supreme Court had earlier mandated in Association of Registration Plates v. Union of India (2005). The petitioner alleged that despite the 2001 notifications and …
The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (the Corporation) framed a scheme under s.99 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 to nationalise the mofussil service in West Godavari district, excluding all private operators on the notified routes and on any routes overlapping them. The scheme …
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