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HIRDESH
Bihari – Appellant
Versus
Singhal & Company – Respondent
ORDER
1. This Miscellaneous Appeal under section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 has been preferred by the appellants–claimants seeking enhancement of compensation and assailing the Award dated 22.4.2006 passed by the learned First Additional Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Vidisha (hereinafter referred to as “Claims Tribunal”) in Claim Case No. 24/2005, whereby the claim petition filed by the appellants under section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 ( in short '' MV Act'') for compensation of Rs.6,80,000/- on account of the death of Prakash (son of appellant Nos.1 and 2) was dismissed.
2. The brief facts giving rise to the present appeal are that on 25.9.2004, at about 6:00 p.m., near Dholkhedi, under Reliance Construction Petrol Pump, Vidisha–Basoda Road, a crane bearing registration number MPN-5605, owned and operated by “Pawan Crane,” was being used at the site. Respondent No.2, while operating the said crane in a rash and negligent manner, suddenly lifted a heavy object, due to which the side wall of a pit collapsed. The pit was filled with gravel, ballast, and sand, and several labourers working inside the pit got buried. Prakash, the son of appellant Nos.1 and 2, died o
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