ATTAU RAHMAN MASOODI
ICICI LOMBARD GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. – Appellant
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RAMAWATI – Respondent
Hon’ble Attau Rahman Masoodi, J.—These two civil revisions have come to be filed against two separate orders dated 26.3.2015 passed by Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal/Fast Track Court No. 2, Raebareli in MACP No. 104/2012 and MACP No. 49/2012 whereby applications filed by the revisionist (insurance company) for summoning the driver, investigating officer and owner in relation to the two accidents in question, on the ground that previous applications filed in the respective cases with the same prayer were rejected by order dated 18.11.2013 hence the second application for the same cause would not lie.
2. Accidental claims under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 are registered before the Tribunal either under Section 166 or 163-A of the Act. There is yet another category of cases i.e. ‘hit and run’ which are regulated under Section 161 of the Act. Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 also provides a mechanism for registration of accidental cases under Section 158 (6) read with Section 166 (4). The scope of registration of cases on the basis of reports forwarded under Section-158 (6) of the Act came to be considered by the Apex Court in the case of Jai Prakash v. National Insurance Company Ltd
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