{"id":102196,"date":"1999-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-04-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/new-india-assurance-co-ltd-vs-swaroop-chandra-jain-and-ors-on-5-april-1999"},"modified":"2016-10-03T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:49:36","slug":"new-india-assurance-co-ltd-vs-swaroop-chandra-jain-and-ors-on-5-april-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/new-india-assurance-co-ltd-vs-swaroop-chandra-jain-and-ors-on-5-april-1999","title":{"rendered":"New India Assurance Co. Ltd. vs Swaroop Chandra Jain And Ors. on 5 April, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Rajasthan High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">New India Assurance Co. Ltd. vs Swaroop Chandra Jain And Ors. on 5 April, 1999<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: I (1999) ACC 521, I (2000) ACC 205, 1999 ACJ 1329, 1999 WLC Raj UC 412<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: N A Tewari<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: P Naolekar, P Tewari<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Naolekar and Tewari, JJ.<\/p>\n<p>1. This appeal is being filed by the insurance company against the order of enhancement of compensation. A preliminary objection has been raised by the counsel for respondents that the appeal filed by the assurance company against enhancement of the awarded amount is not maintainable as the defence available to the assurance company is limited. <a href=\"\/doc\/1183848\/\">In Shankarayya v. United India Insurance Co. Ltd.,<\/a> 1998 ACJ 513 (SC), it has been held by the Apex Court that the insurance company when impleaded as a party by the court can be permitted to contest the proceedings on merits only if the conditions precedent mentioned in Section 170 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 are found to be satisfied and for that purpose the insurance company has to obtain order in writing from the Tribunal which should be a reasoned order.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Unless the procedure provided under Section 170 of the Act is followed, the insurance company cannot have a wider defence on merits than what is available to it by way of statutory defence. Thus the insurance company has no right to challenge the compensation amount.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. That being the case, appeal filed by the assurance company is not maintainable and is accordingly dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan High Court New India Assurance Co. Ltd. vs Swaroop Chandra Jain And Ors. on 5 April, 1999 Equivalent citations: I (1999) ACC 521, I (2000) ACC 205, 1999 ACJ 1329, 1999 WLC Raj UC 412 Author: N A Tewari Bench: P Naolekar, P Tewari JUDGMENT Naolekar and Tewari, JJ. 1. This appeal is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-rajasthan-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New India Assurance Co. 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