This is a petition to transfer M.O.P. No. 514/87 from the file of the District Court, Vellore to the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal Madras.

2. In the affidavit filed in support of this petition it is stated that the petitioners and 1st respondent are all residents of Madras.

The 1st respondent is the owner of the lorry. The 2nd respondent is the Insurance Company having its registered office at Madras. It is further stated that the eyewitnesses to the occurrence are at Madras, and therefore, the convenience of parties require the proceedings to be transferred to Madras.

3. Learned Counsel for the 2nd respondent raises an objection, as to the maintainability of the application under S.24, C.P.C. According to him the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal is not a Court subordinate to this Court, within the meaning of S.24, C.P.C., and that a petition for transfer of the proceeding cannot be sustained. He relies upon two decisions of this Court viz., (1) Varalakshmi Sundar v. Meeran, (1980) 93 Mad LW 540 and (2) Annamalai v. M. Arumugaswamy, (1982) 95 Mad LW 687. In the former decision, Ratnam, J. has taken the view, that the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal is not a Court