{"id":29198,"date":"1995-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1995-09-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-piar-kaur-and-anr-vs-the-punjab-state-and-ors-on-11-september-1995"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:34:23","slug":"smt-piar-kaur-and-anr-vs-the-punjab-state-and-ors-on-11-september-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-piar-kaur-and-anr-vs-the-punjab-state-and-ors-on-11-september-1995","title":{"rendered":"Smt. Piar Kaur And Anr. vs The Punjab State And Ors. on 11 September, 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Smt. Piar Kaur And Anr. vs The Punjab State And Ors. on 11 September, 1995<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1996 ACJ 721, (1996) 112 PLR 169<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: R Mongia<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: R Mongia<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>R.S. Mongia, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The son of the present petitioners was driving a truck which was owned by Respondent No. 4, Shri Gian Singh. That truck met with an accident with a Punjab Roadways bus resulting into the death of the son of the petitioners. The petitioners filed a claim petition before the M.A.C.T., Amritsar for claiming compensation from the State of Punjab, Punjab Roadways and the driver of the bus involved in the accident. Gian Singh, owner of the truck which was being driven by the son of the petitioners was also arrayed as Respondent No.4 in the claim petition. He was not served despite many effort. Because of the non-service of Gian Singh, the owner of the truck, the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal, Amritsar dismissed the entire claim petition. This was led the petitioner to file the present revision petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Learned counsel for the petitioners contends that Sh. Gian Singh, owner of the truck, was a proforma respondent in the claim-petition and no relief was being claimed against the said-respondent, nor any relief was being claimed against the Insurance Company of the truck. If, for any reasons, Respondent No. 4, Gian Singh had not been served in the claim petition, the said petition could have been dismissed qua the said respondent and not against the other respondents. Learned counsel for the respondents could not successfully controvert this argument of the learned counsel for the petitioners.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, I am of the view that the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Amritsar erred in dismissing the claim petition against all the respondents. If a particular respondent is not served especially when no relief is claimed against any such respondent, the claim petition against such a respondent can be dismissed, but not against the other respondents. As observed above, the compensation was being claimed from the State of Punjab, the Punjab Roadways and the Driver of the bus involved in the accident and not from the owner of the truck or the Insurance Company of the truck.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. Consequently, this revision petition is allowed and the impugned order dated January 5, 1995 is hereby set aside to that extent the claim petition been dismissed qua the State of Punjab, Punjab Roadways and the driver, Baldev Singh. The claim petition will stand dismissed against Sh. Gian Singh, Respondent No. 4.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. The parties, through their counsel, are directed to appear before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Amritsar on October 9, 1995, to get further directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Smt. Piar Kaur And Anr. vs The Punjab State And Ors. on 11 September, 1995 Equivalent citations: 1996 ACJ 721, (1996) 112 PLR 169 Author: R Mongia Bench: R Mongia JUDGMENT R.S. Mongia, J. 1. The son of the present petitioners was driving a truck which was owned by Respondent No. 4, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-punjab-haryana-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smt. 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