IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH FAO No.2877 of 2000 Date of decision:29.07.2010 United India Insurance Company Limited ....Appellant versus Smt. Savitri Devi and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Inderjeet Shama, Advocate, and Mr. Pradeep Bedi, Advocate, for the appellant. None for the respondents. ---- 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 ? ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. The only point urged in appeal is that the licence had been issued for the first time after the date of the accident and the Tribunal had merely observed that since the driving licence had been issued in the same year of the accident, the driver must be taken to be duly licenced. The accident had taken place on 19.11.1999 when the licence had been issued only on 01.12.1999 meaning thereby that the driver did not have any licence at all on the date when the accident taken place. The Insurance Company could not be made liable without providing for a right of recovery against the insured. FAO No.2877 of 2000 - 2 - 2. The award of the Tribunal is modified to make it liable only to satisfy the claimants with right of recovery against the insured. 3. The appeal is allowed to the above extent. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 29.07.2010 sanjeev