F.A.O No. 1160 of 1999 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH F.A.O No. 1160 of 1999 Date of decision: Ist July, 2010 New India Assurance Company Ltd. .......Appellant Versus Rajinder Singh and others .........Respondents BEFORE: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr. P.S.Saini, Advocate, for the appellants. None for the respondents. K.Kannan, J.(Oral) 1. The Insurance Company is in appeal seeking the exclusion of liability on the ground that the driver does not have a valid driving license. 2. The learned counsel only pleads the inability of the insurance company to secure the appropriate evidence regarding the genuineness of driving license on the ground that the driving license did not contain clear details of the place of issue of the original license. The license which was produced contains admittedly an endorsement of renewal from 18.12.1991 to F.A.O No. 1160 of 1999 2 17.12.1994. The accident was on 10.10.1994 when renewal of the license was still in enforce. 3. The difficulty with the insurance company encountered in view of its inability to secure information of the original issue is really no difficulty at all for getting the renewal register from Amritsar Licensing Authority. There ought to have been a renewal register as well. The liability cast on the Insurance Company is therefore, perfectly justified. 4. In view of the above, the appeal is dismissed without any merit. [K.KANNAN] JUDGE 1st July, 2010 Shivani Kaushik