UNION OF INDIA Vs. THEELLAMEKALA GALIB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ALL these revision petitions and appeal are filed by the union of India, represented by the South central Railway, Secunderabad, against the orders of the Motor Accidents Claims tribunal, Guntur in M. V. O. P. Nos. 1068, 181, 182 and 184 of 1999.

(2.) THE claimants met with bus accident. They filed claim petitions against the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport corporation (for short 'the A. P. S. R. T. C' ). Later, at the instance of the A. P. S. R. T. C. , the South Central Railway was impleaded as 2nd respondent in the petitions. The tribunal, while holding that there was negligence on the part of the driver of the bus held that the Railways contributed negligence to the extent of 40%.

(3.) SECTION 161 of the Railways Act, 1989 reads as follows: