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Appellant i.e. the insurance company contended that the Tribunal erred in holding that a valid driving license was present with the driver of the offending vehicle. Offending vehicle being a bus. It was further submitted that \u2018unladen weight\u2019 and \u2018gross vehicle weight\u2019 are distinct from each other. And according to the driving license he was not entitled to drive the bus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court observed that the driving license found with the offending vehicle\u2019s driver was valid for a transport vehicle. The appellant had failed to show that the driving license was valid for driving of Light Motor Vehicle Non-Transport, Transport Vehicle and Light Motor Vehicle CAB. It was also observed that the distinction between the &#8216;unladen weight&#8217; and the &#8216;gross vehicle weight&#8217; was irrelevant. Since appellant had failed to show that respondent was carrying an invalid driving license the appeal should be dismissed. 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Gurchain Singh,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/98109we1\"><b>2018 SCC OnLine P&amp;H 2723<\/b><\/a>, decided on 20-12-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab and Haryana High Court: This appeal was filed before a Single Judge Bench of Lisa Gill, J., by the Insurance Company <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2728,33212,3302,11661,31551,33213],"class_list":["post-208065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-compensation","tag-drivers-license","tag-insurer","tag-motor-accident-claims-tribunal","tag-mv-act","tag-section-166-of-the-motor-vehicles-act"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO 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