Supreme Court of India
M/s. Godavari Finance Co. v. Degala Satyanarayanamma & Ors.
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From the headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - ss. 2 (30) and 168 - Motor I accident - Compensation - Offending vehicle subject of Hire Purchase Agreement - Liability of the financer of the vehicle c treating it as the owner - Courts below holding it liable - On appeal, held: The liability to pay compensation is not on the financer- In such matters ordinarily financer not to be treated as the owner- The person in possession of the vehicle would be the owner- Hence- It is essential to find out the liability of the person who is involved in the use of the vehicles or the person who is vicariously liable.
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Vaibhav Jain v. Hindustan Motors Pvt. Ltd.
- 2015 Managing Director, K.S.R.T.C. v. New Indiaassurance Co. Ltd. & Ors.
- 2014 Hdfc Bank Ltd. v. Kumari Reshmaand Ors.
- 2018 Naveen Kumar V. Vijay Kumar and Ors. v. Vijay Kumar and Ors.
- 2026 The State of Jharkhand v. Ranjan Kumar
- 2025 The General Manager (p) Canara Bank v. Ganganarasimhaiah
- 2022 Union of India and Others v. Subrata Nath
- 2022 State Bank of India & Anr. v. K.S. Vishwanath
- 2022 United Bank of India v. Biswanath Bhattacharjee
- 2020 The State of Karnataka & Anr. v. N. Gangaraj
- 2019 S. Sreesanth v. The Board of Control for Cricket in India & Ors.
- 2017 The Management of State Bank of Lndia v. Smita Sharad Deshmukh and Another
- 2015 Central Bank of India v. Jagbir Singh
- 2014 Gm. (operations) S.B.I. &anr. v. R. Periyasamy
- 2011 State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur v. Nemi Chand Nalwaya
Of those, 3 relied on · 1 referred to · 11 mentioned
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