Bhawani Singh, J.—Calamities do not come alone, they come in chain ; so appears to have happened to Vidya Devi, who at a very young age slides into the position of widow-hood on the death of her husband late Nand Ram in the war in 1965. This calamity was followed by a dispute relating to the entitlement of pension admissible on the death of her husband and this dispute with her father-in-law came to be settled somewhere in 1968. Thereafter her father-in-law transferred the family property in the names of his surviving sons leaving her to depend on her parents being issueless. In this very chain of events, she herself was involved in an accident on 21-2-1974 while travelling by Himachal Road Transport Corporation bus. She claimed compensation for the personal injuries she sustained in- this accident by a claim petition but the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Mandi, rejected her petition holding that she could not ask for compensation for her bleeding injuries as the doors of the court stood closed for her by lapse of time. However, she continues her efforts to approach this Court through her brother as her next friend.

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