NEW INDIA ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD Vs. HARINDER KAUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS FAO arises out of an award dated 2.9.2006 passed by learned Presiding Officer, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Ropar, in MACT Case No. 74 of 2003, awarding a sum of Rs. 2,09,600 with 9% interest p.a., from the date of institution of the application in death case of a young man of 30 years in a vehicular accident.

(2.) IN this insurer's appeal, learned Counsel submitted that this is a case of hit and run, and today in our society, people are scared to take the injured along to hospitals due to fear of false implication by the police in such cases. Learned Counsel further submitted that the FIR was lodged after one hour of the accident and it also did not contain any description of the vehicle, name of the driver, or any eye-witness.

(3.) UNDER the circumstances, we do not find any merit in the appeal, and hence it is dismissed in limine. However, we direct the Registrar (General) of this Court to circulate the above judgment of Hon'ble the Apex Court in Pt. Parmanand Katara's case with this order, through the Director Generals of Police, Punjab and Haryana and the Inspector General of Police, UT, Chandigarh, to the police personnel, through District and Sessions Judges to the subordinate judiciary, and through the Health Secretaries of the said Governments to the hospitals all over to enforce the directions of Hon'ble the Apex Court as given in para 9 of the said judgment.