Iffco-Tokio General Insurance Co. Ltd., v. Beerappa and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Sheep and goats killed by rashly/negligently driven lorry; insurer's appeal alleging contributory negligence by claimant and false implication of vehicle rejected; policy records showed vehicle involved; compensation upheld as 'just and proper'; appeal dismissed; deposit in Court ordered to be transmitted to the Tribunal forthwith. High Court of Karnataka. CAUTION: source document suffers severe encoding corruption (U+FFFD mojibake); substantive content recovered by reversing a deterministic character-substitution map verified across many recurring words; all identifiers (case number, dates, bench, party and counsel names, monetary figures) are illegible - verify against the original before citing.
What did the court decide?
No relief to the appellant Insurance Company; the amount in deposit, if any, to be transmitted to the Tribunal forthwith.