Permit–Terms of the permit have been deviated–The vehicle did not have the permit to enter the city–Whether the Insurance Company can be held liable to pay the amount of compensation and recover the same from the owner of the vehicle ?–Held, yes–The purpose of an insurance policy in the present context is to shield the owner/operator from direct liability when such an unforeseen/unfortunate incident takes place–To deny the victim/dependents of the victim compensation simply because the accident took place outside the bounds of the permit and, therefore, is outside the purview of the insurance policy, would be offensive to the sense of justice, as the accident itself is for no fault of him–Then, the Insurance Company must certainly ought to pay–High Court rightly applied the principle of pay and recover.
