JUDGMENT

Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral)--This hearing has been done through video conferencing.

2. The Petitioners have preferred the present petition challenging the impugned order dated 30th January 2020, passed by the Presiding Officer, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (hereinafter, `MACT') (South East), Saket Courts, by which the application for restoration of the claim petition filed before the MACT has been rejected.

3. The brief background to this petition is that the Petitioners preferred a claim petition before the MACT for grant of compensation in terms of Sections 166 and 140 of the MOTOR VEHICLES ACT , 1988. In the said petition, Respondent No. 3-The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd., had filed its written statement. One of the pleas raised by the company was lack of jurisdiction of courts in Delhi, given the accident, which was the subject matter of the claim petition, had taken place in Madhya Pradesh. Upon the said objection being taken, the Petitioners, on the basis of the legal advice that was received, sought permission to withdraw the suit with liberty to refile the same. The same was permitted by the MACT, vide order dated 25th April, 2018. The relevant part of th