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SUDHANSHU DHULIA, K. VINOD CHANDRAN
Chatha Service Station – Appellant
Versus
Lalmati Devi – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(K. VINOD CHANDRAN, J.)
1. Leave granted.
2. The above four appeals are filed from the orders in two first appeals by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, arising from two separate orders of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal and the orders in two Review Applications filed from the aforesaid orders in first appeals, both of which stood rejected.
3. Before us, the appeals are filed by the owner of the offending vehicle involved in the motor accident, in which the breadwinners of the claimants’ family, who were respectively; riding a bicycle and a pedestrian, died in the accident involving an oil tanker. The First Information Report was registered against the driver of the oil tanker which was rashly and negligently driven, by reason of which it hit the bicyclist and the pedestrian. The Tribunal found negligence based on the FIR registered and the deposition of CW2, who was an eye- witness. Ext. C1-FIR and Ext.C3-Charge Sheet points to the rash and negligent driving of the oil tanker, which stands corroborated by the deposition of CW2: eye- witness. The awards were passed in both the claim petitions, the quantum of which has not been challenged by the owner of the offending
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