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2021 Supreme(SC) 741

SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, R.SUBHASH REDDY
K. G. SHANTI – Appellant
Versus
UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. – Respondent


ORDER :

1. The Special Leave Petitions have been preferred by the judicial officer manning the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal in respect of certain observations made personally against her in the impugned order dated 24.02.2020 by the High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru. Insofar as the merits of the case are concerned, the endeavour of the claimants to assail the judgment has been rejected in SLP [C] Nos.8267-8268/2020 on 29.07.2020. We are thus, only called upon to look into the grievance made by the officer qua the observations made against her.

2. Leave granted.

3. We have heard leaned counsel for the appellant on the limited aforesaid issue.

4. Learned counsel has drawn our attention to the observations in paras 13 and 16 as under:

    “13………this Court is unable to understand the level of integrity of the Presiding Officer in deliberately not observing these mistakes and proceeding to believe the bundle of lies which are stated in the complaint, which are contrary to the documents which are already on record. This conduct of the Tribunal is really baffling. Be that as it may.

    xxx xxx xxx

    16……If this is the standard of the Tribunals and if this is the manner in which the Tribunal could b

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