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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, AT DHARWAD
GEETHA K.B.
Mehboobli Nadaf S/o. Peersab Nadaf – Appellant
Versus
Shamshuddin Kuppelur – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
GEETHA K.B., J.
The unsuccessful claimant is before this Court under Section 173 (1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, (for short, ‘M.V.Act’), praying for setting aside the judgment of dismissal passed in MVC No.781/2010 dated 25.11.2013 on the file of I Additional District and Sessions Judge and Additional MACT, Dharwad, sitting at Hubballi (for short, ‘the Tribunal’).
2. Parties would be referred with their ranks, as they were before the Tribunal, for sake of convenience and clarity.
3. The claimant has filed the claim petition under Section 166 of M.V.Act, praying for compensation in respect of the injuries sustained by him in a road traffic accident that had taken place on 23.06.2010, involving motorcycle bearing No.KA-25/EE-0740.
4. The case of claimant in nutshell is that, on 23.06.2010 around 16.30 hours, he was walking on the left side of the road through Indi Pump towards New English School; respondent No.3 who was the rider of Motorcycle bearing registration No.KA-25/EE-0740, (in short, the offending vehicle), came in rash and negligent manner and dashed against the petitioner and thereby caused the accident. Due to said accident, claimant has sustained fracture i
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