IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH FAO No.3119 of 2001 (O&M) Date of decision:16.09.2010 The Oriental Insurance Company Limited ....Appellant versus Jaikum Khan and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. S.P.Singh, Advocate, for Mr. Amit Rawal, 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 appellant-Insurance Company is the insurer for both the vehicles which were involved in the accident. The appeal was admitted only qua the owners of the respective vehicles and the very same Insurance Company through different branches have underwritten risk for the respective vehicles. The appeal against the claimants was dismissed which is another way of saying that the case pleaded by the claimants, which was accepted by the Tribunal, was affirmed in appeal. 2. If the case were to be merely be considered for issue of apportioning the liability between two branches of the same Company, I FAO No.3119 of 2001 (O&M) - 2 - deem it to be a futile exercise. If the Company is the same, it is immaterial whether one branch of the Company should undertake the liability or yet another branch. The appellant-Company is a juristic person registered under the Companies Act and two different branches of the same Company ultimately source their resources only from the Company itself. There is nothing to be adjudicated and the award is confirmed. The appeal is dismissed. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 16.09.2010 sanjeev