Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Private Limited vs Union of India

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2022 Supreme(SC) 1324

SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, M. M. SUNDRESH
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Private Limited – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. N. Vijayaraghavan, AC, Mr. Vipin Nair, Advocate, Mr. Siddharth, Advocate, Ms. Mamata Meghwal, Advocate, Mr. Amit Kumar Agrawal, Advocate, For the Appellant / Mr. Jayant K. Sud, Ld. ASG, Ms. Garima Prasad, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Navanjay Mahapatra, Advocate, Mr. Bhuvan Mishra, Advocate, Mr. Manish, Advocate, Mr. Sughosh Subramanyam, Advocate, Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, Advocate, Mr. Amrish Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, Advocate, Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Advocate, Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Advocate, Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Advocate, Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Advocate, Mr. K. V. Girish Chowdary, Advocate, Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, Advocate, Mr. Manish Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Arjun Garg, Advocate, Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Advocate, Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Advocate, Mr. Sourav Roy, Advocate/ DAG (Chhattisgarh), Mr. Mahesh Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Vishal Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Prabudh Singh, Advocate, Ms. Devika Khanna, Advocate, Mrs. V.D. Khanna, Advocate, M/s Vmz Chambers, Advocate, Mr. Ravindra A. Lokhande, Advocate, Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Advocate, Ms. Ambika Atrey, Advocate, Dr. Vidyottma Jha, Advocate, Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Advocate, Dr. Monika Gusain, Advocate, Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, Advocate, Ms. Eliza Bar, Advocate, Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, Advocate, Mr. Susheel Joseph Cyriac, Advocate, Ms. Uditha Chakravarthy, Advocate, Mr. Raj Kamal, Advocate, Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, Advocate, Mr. Md. Apzal Ansari, Advocate, Mr. G. Prakash, Advocate, Mr. Mukul Singh, DAG, Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, Advocate, Mr. Prakhar Srivastav, Advocate, Ms. Sneh Bairwa, Advocate, Mr. Aakash Sinha, Advocate, Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Advocate, Mr. Sachin Patil, Advocate, Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, Advocate, Mr. Geo Joseph, Advocate, Ms. Shwetal Shepal, Advocate, Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Advocate, Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Advocate, Mr. Karun Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, Advocate, Ms. Tarini K. Nayak, Advocate, Ms. P.S. Negi, Advocate, Mr. Daniel Lyngdoh, Advocate, Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Advocate, Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Advocate, Ms. Manya Hasija, Advocate, Ms. Pragya Barsaiyan, Advocate, Mr. Akash Singh, Advocate, Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, Advocate, Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Advocate, Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Advocate, Mr. Som Raj Choudhury, Advocate, Mr. Milind Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, Advocate, Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., Advocate, Ms. Preeti Singh, Advocate, Ms. Nupur Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Mahara, Advocate, Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Advocate, Ms. Sweena Nair, Advocate, Mr. P. Mohith Rao, Advocate, Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Advocate, Mr. Ishaan Borthakur, Advocate, Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Advocate, Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Advocate, Mr. Ishaan Borthakur, Advocate, Mr. Pradeep Misra, Advocate, Mr. Suraj Singh, Advocate, Mr. Yashsvi Virendra, Advocate, Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Advocate, Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Advocate, Ms. G. Indira, Advocate, Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Advocate, Mr. Aravindh S., Advocate, Ms. C. Rubavathi, Advocate, For the Respondent; Mr. Atul Nanda, Sr. Advocate, Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, Advocate, Ms. Vanya Gupta, Advocate, Mr. Avnish Dave, Advocate, Mr. Gourab Banerji, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Ashish Kumar Tiwari, Advocate, Mr. Rakesh Talukdar, Advocate, Mr. Gourab Banerji, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Harsha Peechara, Advocate, Mr. Ashish Kumar Tiwari, Advocate, Mr. Rakesh Talukdar, Advocate, Ms. Kritika Narayan, Advocate, Mr. Vishal Meghwal, Advocate, Mr. Milind Kumar, Advocate, Ms. Kavita Jha, Advocate, Mr. Aditeya Bali, Advocate, Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Advocate, Ms. Anu K. Joy, Advocate, Mr. Alim Anvar, Advocate, for the Impleader.

ORDER

1. We must begin by reminding parties once again of the importance of time schedules to be kept. We are spending valuable judicial time to streamline the system only because a very large part of pendency of litigation is in the field of motor accidents claims compensation and the beneficiaries do not get the amounts in time. What is really the administrative tuning required between different stakeholders, has come in the lap of the Court and the Court is only endeavouring to coordinate and give a nudge to the stakeholders to ensure that system works in an efficient manner. We say so as once again the report filed by the learned ASG is not on record and one of the aspects pointed out by him is that everything comes a day before. We cannot, but castigate all concerned persons for believing they have a walk in time anytime they want to give inputs. we expect the inputs to be given in time stipulated by the learned ASG and not a day before the Court hearing so that we have the benefit of the report. Our patience on this issue is running thin and thus we make it clear that henceforth if time schedules are not followed, they will be visited with exemplary costs which will not be sma

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2022 Supreme(SC) 1324

SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, M. M. SUNDRESHBajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Private Limited – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

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SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, M. M. SUNDRESH
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Private Limited – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent