{"id":144135,"date":"2021-02-25T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=144135"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T11:09:30","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-allows-drivers-appeal-against-order-favouring-insurance-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-allows-drivers-appeal-against-order-favouring-insurance-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir High Court allows driver’s appeal against order favouring insurance company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court<\/a> has allowed the appeal of a driver against the award of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Kathua dated 29.04.2017 whereby the Tribunal while awarding compensation to the claimants, granted liberty to the insurance company (respondent 1) to recover the same from the owner (appellant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal has been filed on the ground that the Tribunal has wrongly granted the liberty to Insurance Company to recover the award amount from the appellant as the driver of the vehicle was not holding a valid driving license having Public Service Vehicle (PSV) endorsement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandeep Gupta, the counsel for the appellant, stated that the PSV endorsement for driving a transport vehicle is not necessary as per law laid down by the Apex Court in Mukund Dewangan v Oriental Insurance Company Limited, (2017)14 SCC 663.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baldev Singh, counsel appearing for the insurance company, has not denied the proposition of law in the judgment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single-judge bench of Justice Rajnesh Oswal observed, \u201cIn the judgment of Mukund Dewangan\u2019s case (supra), it has been categorically held that \u201cthere is no requirement to obtain a separate endorsement to drive a transport vehicle, and if a driver is holding a license to drive a light motor vehicle, he can drive transport vehicle of such class without any endorsement to that effect.\u201d Respondent No. 1\u2019s witness, namely, Jatinder Kumar in his testimony has deposed that on the basis of driving license issued to the driver, he cannot drive the matador for which PSV endorsement is necessary. The license is not PSV. In view of non-endorsement of PSV in the license only, the learned Tribunal has granted liberty to the Insurance Company to recover the award from the owner\/appellant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Therefore, in view of the discussion and the law laid down in Mukund Dewangan\u2019s case (supra), the Court held that liberty granted to the Insurance Company to recover the award amount from the appellant is not sustainable. \u201cThe award is modified to the extent that the liberty granted to the respondent No. 1-Insurance Company to recover the amount from the appellant is set aside\u201d, order the Judge while modifying the Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathua dated 29.04.2017 whereby the Tribunal while awarding compensation to the claimants, granted liberty to the insurance company (respondent 1) to recover the same from the owner (appellant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,101751],"tags":[23952,57327,101708,101709,101710],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2021\/02\/25152101\/jammu.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}