M. R. A. Ansari, J.

( 1 ) SHANTI Devi Dutt and Pratibha Dutt, appellants in F. A. 0 s No. 95 of 1968, filed two separate applications before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal) under section 110a of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (herein after referred to as the Act ). According to the averments in these applications these two appellants and Kundan Lal, the husband of Shanti Devi Dutt and father of Pratibha Dutt, were waiting at the Delhi Gate Bus Stand on 4. 10. 1964 at about 4. 40 p m. for catching a bus in order to go to the Friends Colony. While they were waiting a bus bearing registration No. DLP 182, owned by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, arrived at the bus stand and all the three of them boarded the bus. But even before they could settle themselves in the bus and even while Kundan Lal was on the top step and the other two were on the platform of the bus, the conductor of the bus pulled the bell thereby signalling to the driver of the bus to proceed and immediately the driver started the bus with a jerk as a result of which all the three of them fell down on the road. As they fell down, another bus bearing registration No. DL

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