{"id":143071,"date":"1989-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1989-09-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/swami-lal-chand-dass-and-ors-vs-balraj-malik-and-ors-on-7-september-1989"},"modified":"2016-03-07T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T10:15:49","slug":"swami-lal-chand-dass-and-ors-vs-balraj-malik-and-ors-on-7-september-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/swami-lal-chand-dass-and-ors-vs-balraj-malik-and-ors-on-7-september-1989","title":{"rendered":"Swami Lal Chand Dass And Ors. vs Balraj Malik And Ors. on 7 September, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Swami Lal Chand Dass And Ors. vs Balraj Malik And Ors. on 7 September, 1989<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: II (1990) ACC 412<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: S Sodhi<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S Sodhi<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>S.S. Sodhi, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. A sum of Rs. 24, 000\/-was awarded as compensation to the claimant-Balraj Malik for the injuries sustained by him when the motor-cycle, he was driving on, was involved in an accident with the truck DLG-6616. This happened on February 9, 1982. It was the finding of the Tribunal that Mange Ram was the driver of the offending truck and that is belonged to respondent 2-A Gramin Gaushala Bawana. The appellant- Swami Lai Chand Dass, it appears, had been impleaded as the owner of the truck. There is, however, a clear finding recorded by the Tribunal that the truck was the property of Gramin Gaushala Bawana.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. In the face of the finding recorded by the Tribunal that the appellant-Swami Lal Chand Dass was neither the driver nor the owner of the offending truck, the Tribunal clearly erred in fastening liability upon him too for the compensation awarded to the claimant. The Award of the Tribunal is accordingly hereby modified to the extent that the liability for the amount awarded shall be only that of the truck-driver Mange Ram and its owner-Gramin Gaushala Bawana. The appellant-Swami Lal Chand Dass is thus absolved of liability. This appeal is consequently hereby accepted. There will be no order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Swami Lal Chand Dass And Ors. vs Balraj Malik And Ors. on 7 September, 1989 Equivalent citations: II (1990) ACC 412 Author: S Sodhi Bench: S Sodhi JUDGMENT S.S. Sodhi, J. 1. A sum of Rs. 24, 000\/-was awarded as compensation to the claimant-Balraj Malik for the injuries sustained by him when [&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":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-punjab-haryana-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swami Lal Chand Dass And Ors. vs Balraj Malik And Ors. on 7 September, 1989 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/swami-lal-chand-dass-and-ors-vs-balraj-malik-and-ors-on-7-september-1989\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swami Lal Chand Dass And Ors. vs Balraj Malik And Ors. on 7 September, 1989 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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