New India Assurance Co. Ltd. vs Velu – Motor Accident Compensation Claim – Delayed FIR

Motor Accident Compensation Claim – Setting aside a Madras HC judgment, SC observed: Merely because the FIR has been delayed a claim cannot be rejected but in the present case considering that all the available evidences points out towards a skid and fall and not a motor accident, the delayed FIR also, require a relevance, particularly now we have been told that FIR itself has not been proceeded. Even the police in the FIR also came to the conclusion that there was no motor accident and had filed a closure report.