ORDER:- Kannan, the petitioner, was involved in a road accident in which he was knocked down by a motor vehicle belonging to the Southern Roadways. The accident happened on 21-4-1976. Kannan sustained injuries as a result of the accident. The injuries were as follows - one tooth was broken and other teeth began shaking. There was a head injury. There was a fracture of the head bone. There were other multiple injuries in the body. The petitioner filed a petition under Section 110-A of the Motor Vehicles Act, before the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, complaining that the lorry belonging to the Southern Roadways was driven in a rash and negligent manner resulting in his being knocked down and sustaining multiple injuries. He claimed in this petition an aggregate compensation of Rs.8,000 under various heads. In his petition he described in detail the nature of the several injuries which he sustained in the accident. However, when it came to asking for compensation under named heads of claim, he did not make any particular claim as compensation for any permanent disability in his body as a result of the accident.

2. The claim of compensation in the manner aforesaid was resiste