Supreme Court says mediclaim benefits cannot be deducted from motor accident compensation
The top court stated that the benefit received under a Mediclaim policy flows from premiums paid by the insured person over a period of time.
The top court stated that the benefit received under a Mediclaim policy flows from premiums paid by the insured person over a period of time.
The court’s directive came after two writ petitions were filed by V Raghavendra, a resident of Secunderabad, against the coercive methods allegedly employed by the police to recover fines.
A bus route in East Burdwan is active, for which the permit is in the name of a dead woman. According to the Motor Vehicles Act this is illegal.
Besides a fine up to Rs 10,000, the driving license of the driver will be suspended for a minimum period of three months under the direction of the Supreme Court committee.
According to this notice, it has been said that it is directed to immediately stop such kind of activities to avoid prosecution and penalty, etc.
Initially, police had arrested Arsalan for the offence but later investigations revealed that he was not driving the Jaguar on the night of the accident as the police did not find any injury marks on Arsalan’s face which would have been there if his face had been hit by the car’s airbag that inflated at the time of the accident.
The call for the strike had been given by the United Front of Transport Associations (UFTA) -- an umbrella body of over 50 unions in Delhi-NCR -- against the steep penalties under the amended MVA.
But according to BJP circles, the government is dead serious about the NPR exercise.
The most glaring part of the news is that the amount of fine was calculated before the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 came into effect on September 1.
For riding without a helmet and driving without wearing seatbelt a fine of Rs 1,000 will be imposed.
