Iqbal Ahmed Ansari, J.

1. Thus appeal, preferred under Section 173 the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as the M.V. Act) has arisen out of the award dated 12.7.1996, passed, in T.S. (MAC) 163 of 1995, by the Member, Motor Accident claims Tribunal, West Tripura, Agartala (hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal) dismissing the application for compensation made under Section 166 of the M.V. Act by the claimant-appellant.

2. The material facts leading to the present appeal may, in brief, be set out as follows:

The claimant-appellant herein, Smti. Bipal Bashi Das, made an application under Section 166 of the M.V. Act seeking compensation for a sum of Rs. 11,00,000 for the death, of her husband, Kartik Das, who allegedly died in a motor vehicular accident, her case being, in brief, thus on 6.4.1994, the claimant's husband, Kartik Das, boarded a Jeep bearing registration No. TRT 1867 for going to Teliamura from Taidubazar. Some other passengers also boarded the said Jeep. As Amarpur-Teliamura road was infested by extremists and possibilities of extremists attack on public vehicles passing over the road in the said area were very high, there was panic in the said are