ORDER :

[COMMON PRAYER: Civil Revision Petitions have been filed under Article 227 of Constitution of India, to direct the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Additional District Judge, Virudhunagar to take on file and number the claim petitions unnumbered MCOP No. Of 2021 pending in file No.82 and 83 of 2021, dated 22.03.2021 and 25.03.2021 respectively on the file of Additional District Judge, Virudhunagar and to decide the same on merits in accordance with law.]

These Civil Revision Petitions are directed against the order of returning the Motor Accident Claim Petitions by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/Additional District Court, Virudhunagar.

2. Since the Civil Revision Petitions have been filed against the return made by the Tribunal, before taking the claim petitions on file, there is no necessity to issue notice to the respondents. As the points to be decided in both the revisions are one and the same, both are taken up together and a common order is being passed.

3. The revision petitioners in C.R.P.(MD) No.681 of 2012 have laid the claim petition under Section 140 and 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, claiming compensation for the death of one Karanthamalai, who died in a road ac