R S R T C Vs. SARDARA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioner.

(2.) THE practice of the Corporation to leave no order of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal unchallenged deserves to be deprecated.

(3.) THE Corporation is not an ordinary litigant. It is a State or Agency or instrumentality of the State within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution. It is to exhibit itself to be a model transport operator and not like a private transport operator. It is being the State within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution equally concerned to observe and follow the directive principles of the Constitution. Accordingly it has to implement the benevolent provision of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 which has been enacted keeping in view socio economic aspect.