P&H: Rejects Insurer’s Challenge Over Allegedly Fake Driving Licence
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed United India Insurance Company’s appeal against a compensation award, holding that the insurer failed to prove that the driver’s licence was fake. Justice Parmod Goyal upheld the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal’s decision to award Rs 1.15 lakh to the parents of a young man who died in a 1999 road accident.
The insurer challenged the Tribunal’s finding that the driver held a valid licence at the time of the accident. The Tribunal had relied on a report from the Licensing Authority in Mathura, which stated that the licence had been issued in...
