S S SODHI Vs. CHANDER VIKAS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS revision petition has been filed against an order passed by the learned Motor Accidents claims Tribunal, Chandigarh vide which liability under section 140 of the Motor vehicles Act has been fixed by way of ad interim compensation.

(2.) THIS very award was also the subject matter of challenge in C. R. No. 3413 of 2005, where the only contention raised was that the amount should not be adjusted at the time of passing final award. Said revision was disposed of by passing the following order:

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner, in the present case, contends that he had sold the scooter much prior to the date of accident and this fact stands admitted by the respondent in the written statement filed by him and, therefore, no liability could be fixed on him. In support of his contention he placed reliance on the ] judgment of this court in Harjinder Kaur v. Shahni Devi, 1991 ACJ 845 (Pandh) and a division Bench judgment of Kerala High court in Ouseph Varghese v. Kunjoonju alekutty, 1993 ACJ 981 (Kerala ).