IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH FAO No.1411 of 2000(O&M) Date of decision:04.10.2010 National Insurance Company Limited ....Appellant versus Smt. Haruni and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Ravinder Mohan Suri, 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 Insurance Company is in appeal urging that a driver required a specific licence stipulating its character as three wheeler and a mere licence to drive a motorcycle, scooter, car was not sufficient to qualify for a statement that the driver was duly licensed. A three wheeler is also a light motor vehicle and apart from specifying a category as a light motor vehicle in Section 10, there is no particular categorization for a three wheeler. A licence to driver a car which is also a light motor vehicle, in my view, would be sufficient unless it is specifically elicited in evidence that it required different driving skills and the licence issued for a car was not sufficient to drive a three wheeler. It would have been FAO No.1411 of 2000(O&M) - 2 - different if the three wheeler has been used as a transport vehicle in which case a transport vehicle endorsement would have necessary under Section 3 of the Motor Vehicles Act. There is no such evidence in that regard. 2. The Tribunal has held that the insurer had not proved that the driver was duly licensed. I affirm the the same and dismissed the appeal. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 04.10.2010 sanjeev