M. JAGANNADHA RAO, J.

( 1 ) SEVERAL questions relating to the liability of the Insurance Company under Section 95 of the Motor Vehicles Act, in respect of passengers carried for hire or reward, or gratuitously in a goods vehicle or a passenger vehicle and of the liability of the owner under tne Law of Torts, arise in these three appeals.

( 2 ) THE appeals relating to passengers in a goods vehicle are two and they are C. M. A. Nos. 486 and 502 of 1982. They arise respectively out of o. P. Nos. 99/1980 and 119/1980. in both the appeals, the insurance Company is the appellant and the respondents are the owner of the vehicle (the andhra Paper Mills Limited, Rajanmundry) and tne legal representatives of either the deceased (in O. P. No. 119/1980) or the injured person (in O. P. No. 99/1980 ). The goods vehicle belonging to the Andhra Paper Mills was carrying bamboo belonging to the Company. while the vehicle was passing througn the lorests, tne two police constables. the injured one as well as the deceased one:who were in charge ot the work of containing Naxalite activity in the area, were given a in the goods vehicle and soon thereafter the accident in question occurred. One counta

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