(1.) Leave granted.
(2.) Whether an insurer, while defending an action initiated under the Workmen's compensation Act, 1923, (for short, '1923 Act') is precluded from raising any defence as envisaged in under sub-section (2) of Section 149 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, (for short, 'the 1988 Act') is the question involved in these appeals.
(3.) We will notice the fact of the matter from the civil appeal arising out of special leave petition (civil) no. 26615 of 2004.