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Surjit Singh Vs Ram Karan

Case No: F.A.O. No. 3000 of 1996

Date of Decision: Jan. 23, 2014

Citation: (2014) 3 RCR(Civil) 1043

Hon'ble Judges: Jitendra Chauhan, J

Bench: Single Bench

Advocate: Sagar Aggarawl, Advocate for Ashit Malik, Advocate for the Appellant; Neeraj Khanna, Advocate for the Respondent

Final Decision: Dismissed

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Judgement

Jitendra Chauhan, J.@mdashThe present appeal has been filed against the award dated 12.8.1996, passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims

Tribunal, Karnal (for short ''the Tribunal'') vide which, the claim petition filed by the appellants was dismissed. However, a sum of Rs. 50,000/- has

been awarded to the appellants-claimants on account of no fault liability. Learned counsel for the appellant contends that the learned Tribunal has

wrongly dismissed the claim petition without appreciating the facts on record. The accident occurred due the rash and negligent driving of

respondent No. 1. As per the medical record, the accident is proved on record. The appellant suffered multiple injuries on his body and he

remained admitted in Civil Hospital, Kapurthala from 20.7.1993 to 23.7.1993.

2. On the other hand, the learned counsel for the Insurance Company submits that the learned Tribunal has rightly dismissed the claim petition of

the appellants. Therefore, he prays for the dismissal of the appeal.

3. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties and perused the case file.

4. The learned Tribunal framed issue No. 1 ""whether the accident took place on account of rash, negligent and careless driving of truck No. PB-

11C-7896 by respondent No. 1 Ram Karan and in that accident Raju, Manoranjan Singh, Tirlochan Singh received injuries and Parvinderpal

Singh died and car No. DL-4CB-2542 was damaged? OPP While deciding this issue, the learned Tribunal has categorically recorded as under:-

Keeping in view the fact that the author of the FIR has not been examined and all the claimants are interested in claiming compensation but

statement of RW 1 Ram Karan finds corroboration from the statement of PW 2 Manoranjan Singh, who has admitted that the truck was lying

parked on its proper side on kacha berm of the road with its parking lights on, and there is no reason to disbelieve PW-2 Manoranjan Singh. I

come to the conclusion that the accident took place not on account of negligence of the truck driver but on account of negligence of Parvinderpal

Singh, who was driving the car.

5. As per Mark-G, report of mechanic regarding the car and the truck, the right side tie rod of the truck was in broken condition. After having

gone through the record and hearing the learned counsel for the parties, this Court finds no substance in the arguments raised by the learned

counsel for the appellants. Moreover, This Court does not want to substitute one probable view with another probable view already taken by the

learned Tribunal. In view of the above, this Court finds no perversity or illegality in the impugned Award passed by the learned Tribunal.

Accordingly, the present appeal is dismissed.