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GITA GOPI
L H of Sanjaybhai Ashokbhai Vaghela – Appellant
Versus
Ashokbhai Bachubhai Vaghela – Respondent
ORDER :
1. Advocate Ms. S.H. Barot for Mr. Shashikant Parmar, learned advocate for the petitioners, submits that the challenge has been given to the order of dismissal of the claim petition passed on 24.08.2021 by Motor Accident Cliams Tribunal (Auxi.) Nadiyad in M.A.C.P. No.166 of 2018.
2. Ms. Barot submitted that on the very same day, an application, Exhibit-25, was moved praying for an adjournment on the ground of applicant being unwell. The learned Tribunal without giving due consideration to the application, rejected the adjournment application and dismissed the claim petition. Ms. Barot submitted that taking into consideration the object of the M.V. Act, there cannot be any dismissal of the claim petition. She also submitted that the learned Tribunal even while rejecting the adjournment application ought to have posted the matter for evidence of the opponents and should not have straightway dismissed the petition.
3. In the judgment of Bharatbhai Narsinghbhai Chaudhary and Others v. Malek Rafik Malek Himmatbhai, reported in 2011 (2) G.L.R. 1324, it has been held that the learned Tribunal has no power to dismiss the Claim Petition for default taking into consideration the object
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