Certain legal principles and specific factual situations are provided in each of the following questions. Apply the principles to the given facts and select the most appropriate answer. LEGAL PRINCIPLE : A master shall be liable for the acts of his servants done in the course of employment. FACTUAL SITUATION : PAL, a public sector undertaking, is operating a number of bus services for its employees in Pune. These buses are quite distinct in their appearance and carry the board ‘for PAL employees only’. M, a villager from neighboring state, was waiting for a regular bus in one of the bus stops in Pune. A bus belonging to PAL happened to stop nearby and number of people got into the bus. M, without realizing that it was PAL bus, got into the bus and soon thereafter, the bus met with an accident due to driver’s negligence. M, along with several others, was injured in the accident. M seeks to file a suit against PAL claiming damages. DECISION :

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The correct option is (C): M will succeed, because the driver was anyhow duty-bound to drive carefully.

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M will succeed, because he got into the bus without realizing that it was PAL bus.

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M will not succeed, because it was for him to find out whether it was a public transport.

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M will succeed, because the driver was anyhow duty-bound to drive carefully.

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PAL is not liable as the bus met with an accident due to driver’s negligence.

(A) Conditions for a Hindu Marriage	(i) Section 13
(B) Registration of Hindu Marriage	(ii) Section 10
(C) Judicial Separation	(iii) Section 5
(D) Divorce	(iv) Section 8

I. Arbitration of excepted matters	1. A. Ayyasamy v. A. Paramasivam, (2016) 10 SCC 386
II. Conditional Arbitration Clauses	2. In re - Interplay between Arb Agreements and Stamp Act 2023 INSC 1066
III. Separability of Arbitration Agreement - Kompetenz Kompetenz	3. Vulcan Insurance Co Ltd v. Maharaj Singh and Anr (1976) 1 SCC 943
IV. Arbitrability of fraud	4. Mitra Guha Builders (India) Co v. ONGC (2020) 3 SCC 222

I. Uti Possidetis	1. Principle in customary international law providing that where there has been a fundamental change of circumstances since an agreement was concluded, a party to that agreement may withdraw from or terminate it.
II. Pacta Sunt Servanda	2. Two or more states equally exercise sovereignty with respect to a territory and its inhabitants.
III. Condominium	3. Doctrine that territory remains with the possessor state at the end of war or occupation unless otherwise determined by a treaty or an agreement.
IV. Rebus Sic Stantibus	4. Proposition that treaties are binding upon the parties to them and must be performed in good faith.

The Correct Option is C

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