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2023 Supreme(SC) 972

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, HRISHIKESH ROY, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, PANKAJ MITHAL, MANOJ MISRA
Bajaj Alliance General Insurance Co. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
Rambha Devi – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Jayant K Sud, Sr. Adv., Mr. Siddhartha Dave, Sr. Adv., Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, Adv., Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR, Mr. Kartik Jasra, Adv., Mr. Vaibhav Dwivedi, Adv., Mr. A N Krishna Swami, Adv., Mr. Udai Khanna, Adv., Mr. Avnish Dave, Adv., Mr. Jagdish C Solanki, Adv., Ms. Riya Sethi, Adv., Mr. Pratyush Srivastav, Adv., Ms. Vidhi Thaker, Adv., Mr. Parmod Kumar Vishnoi, Adv., Mr. Prastut Dalvi, Adv., Mr. Kumar Prashant, Adv., Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Tushar Bhushan, Adv., Mr. Amartya Bhushan, Adv., Mr. Yojit Mehra, Adv., Mr. Ketan Paul, Adv., Mr. Sukant Vikram, AOR, Ms. Sakshi Mittal, AOR, Mr. Vishnu Mehra, Adv., Mr. Kunal Malhotra, Adv., Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, AOR, Ms. K Enatoli Sema, Adv., Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv., Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv., Mr. Abhsihek Gola, Adv., Mr. Viresh B. Saharya, AOR, Mr. Akshat Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Rajeev Kumar, Adv., Mr. P.K. Seth, Adv., Ms. Manjeet Chawla, AOR, Mrs. Usha Pant Kukreti, Adv., Ms. Meenakshi Midha, Adv., Mr. Kapil Midha, Adv., Ms. Garv Singh, Adv., Ms. Samiksha Gupta, Adv., Mr. Garv Singh, Adv., Mr. Chander Shekhar Ashri, AOR, Ms. Hetu Arora Sethi, AOR, Mr. Rajeev Maheshwaranand Roy, AOR, Dr. Meera Agarwal, AOR, Mr. Ramesh Chandra Mishra, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Jha, Adv., Mr. Ram Ekbal Roy, Adv., Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR, Ms. Neha Das, Adv., Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv., Ms. Aman Nihal, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Adv., Mr. Ravi Shankar Ravi, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kumar Lal Das, Adv., Mr. Abhishek Kumar Gola, Adv., Mr. Abhishek K Gola, Adv., Mr. Sudhir Naagar, AOR, Mr. Anil Kumar, AOR, Ms. Amrreeta Swaarup, AOR, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gupta, AOR, Mr. Ganesh Kumar R., AOR, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Adv., Mr. Vivek Kumar Pandey, Adv., Mr. Shuchi Singh, AOR, Mr. Rakesh Kumar Tewari, Adv., Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv., Mr. Ujjwal Kumar Dubey, Adv.,
For the Respondent: Mr. Ram Lal Roy, AOR, Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv., Mr. Punit Damodar, Adv., Mr. C. George Thomas, AOR, Mr. Sanyat Lodha, Adv., Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv., Mr. Raghav Agrawal, Adv., Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv., Ms. Raveena Kinkhabwala, Adv., Ms. Prachi Pandey, Adv., Mrs. Anitha Shenoy, Sr. Adv., Mr. Vivek Mathur, Adv., Mr. Siddharth Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Ivan, Adv., Ayushma Awasthi, Adv., Ms. Namrata Sarah Caleb, Adv., Parita, Adv., Ms. Mohini Priya, AOR, Mr. Devvrat, AOR, Ms. Charu Sangwan, Adv., Mr. Anup Kumar, Adv., Mr. Abhijit Banerjee, Adv., Ms. Swati Setia, Adv., Mr. Devesh Kumar Agnihotri, Adv., Mr. Sachin Sharma, Adv., Mr. Anuj Bhandari, AOR, Mr. Rajat Gupta, Adv., Mr. Gaurav Jain, Adv., Mrs. Disha Bhandari, Adv., Mrs. Anjali Doshi, Adv., Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, AOR, Mr. Abhishek Gola, Adv., Mr. Viresh B. Saharya, AOR, Mr. Akshat Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Anilendra Pandey, AOR, Ms. Priya Kashyap, Adv., Mr. Rajeev Kumar Ranjan, Adv., Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR, Mr. Mallikarjun S. Mylar, Adv., Mr. Ashok Bannidinni, AOR, Mr. Sujeet Kumar, Adv., Mr. Nishanth Patil, AOR, Mr. Ayush P Shah, Adv., Mr. Vignesh Adithiya S, Adv., Mr. Tripurari Ray, Adv., Mr. Nithyananda Murthy P, Adv., Mrs. Bhanu Prabha, Adv., Mr. Balwant Singh Billowria, Adv., Mr. Vivekanad Singh, Adv., Mr. Anirudh Ray, Adv., Mr. Atrul Wadera, Adv., Mr. N Suresha, Adv., Mr. Rajinder Singh, Adv., Ms. Shilpa Singh, AOR, Mr. Sushil Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. Pahlad Singh Sharma, AOR, Mr. Virendra Kumar, Adv., Mr. Manish Kumar Mishra, Adv., Mr. Kshitij Vedwal, Adv., Mr. Salil Paul, Adv., Mr. Sahil Paul, Adv., Ms. Manjeet Chawla, AOR, M/S. Nuli & Nuli, AOR, Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR, Mr. Ganesh Kumar R., AOR, Mr. Manjunath Meled, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Sharma, Adv., Mrs. Vijayalaxmi Udapudi, Adv., Mr. Anil Kumar, AOR, Mr. Subhro Sanyal, AOR, Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR, Mr. C.B.Gururaj, Adv., Mr. Balaram Nayak, Adv., Mr. Animesh Dubey, Adv., Ms. Laxmi Haribhai Nakum, Adv., Mr. Sharanagouda Patil, Adv., Mrs. Supreeta Patil, Adv., M/S. S-legal Associates, AOR, Mr. Pradeep Gaur, Adv., Mr. Amit Gaur, Adv., Mr. Sunil Kumar Sethi, Adv., Ms. Sweta Sinha, Adv., Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR, Mr. P. B. Suresh, AOR, Mr. Vipin Nair, Adv., Mr. Arindam Ghosh, Adv., Mr. Karthik Jayashankar, Adv., Mr. Anshumaan Bahadur, Adv., Mr. P.b.sashaankh, Adv., Mrs. Madhavi Yadav, Adv., Mr. A. N. Krishnaswamy, Adv., Mr. Navneet Kumar, Adv., Mr. Saurabh Tiwari, Adv., Mr. Parijat Kishore, AOR, Mr. Faisal Sherwani, AOR, Mr. Shikher Deep Aggarwal, Adv Shivi Sethi, Adv., Mr. Onkar Thakur, Adv., Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, Adv., Ms. Fauzia Shakil, AOR, Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv., Ms. Garima Chaudhary, Adv., Ms. Agastya Sen, Adv.,

ORDER :

1. This reference before the Constitution Bench arises in pursuance of an order dated 8 March 2022 of a Bench of three-Judges. The three-Judge Bench was in turn hearing a reference by two-Judges which was made on 3 May 2018.

2. The primary issue which has been referred to the Constitution Bench is whether a person holding a driving licence in respect of a “light motor vehicle” could on the strength of the licence be entitled to drive a “transport vehicle of light motor vehicle class” having unladen weight not exceeding 7500 kgs.

3. The issue was dealt with by a Bench of three-Judges in Mukund Dewangan v Oriental Insurance Company Limited, (2017) 14 SCC 663. The conclusions which were arrived at in the judgment were in the following terms:

    “60. Thus, we answer the questions which are referred to us thus:

    60.1. “Light motor vehicle” as defined in Section 2(21) of the Act would include a transport vehicle as per the weight prescribed in Section 2(21) read with Sections 2(15) and 2(48). Such transport vehicles are not excluded from the definition of the light motor vehicle by virtue of Amendment Act 54 of 1994.

    60.2. A transport vehicle and omnibus, the gross vehicle weight of eith


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