JUDGMENT

Rekha Palli, J. (Oral)--The present petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India seeks to assail the order dated 20.09.2018 passed by the learned Motor Accident Claim Tribunal(MACT) whereby the claim petition preferred by the petitioners was directed to be returned to them for want of territorial jurisdiction with liberty to file the same before a Court of competent jurisdiction having the necessary territorial jurisdiction

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the impugned order is wholly perverse as the learned Tribunal failed to appreciate that once the office of the Insurer was situated within the territorial jurisdiction of the learned Tribunal at Patiala House Courts, New Delhi, the claim petition preferred by the petitioners could not be rejected on the ground of territorial jurisdiction. He submits that even though the petition was directed to be returned to the petitioners in September, 2018 itself, the petitioners who are the legal heirs of late Shri Shiva Raj could not approach this Court at that stage as they have been facing grave financial hardship after the death of the sole bread earner of the family. The petitioners belong to a re