KANTI LAL Vs. MOTI LAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal has been filed by the claimant -appellant being aggrieved by the rejection of his claim petition vide order dated 19.5.1997 passed by the MACT, Doongarpur rejecting claim case No. 86/1996. The accident in question took place on 23.9.1995 while he was travelling with his brother Moti Lal in jeep No. GJ -9/94 from Udaipur to Doongarpur and at about 9:00 PM near the turn of Gamdi Bus Stand on account of rash and negligent driving of the said jeep, it collided with pillar and fell down in a pit and on account of the said accident, the claimant Kanti Lal suffered injuries for which the present claim petition was filed by him.

(2.) LEARNED Tribunal has rejected the claim petition on the ground of alleged accident of the bus No. RJ 12/P -0076 which used to be driven by the appellant himself as driver and the said bus also fell in the ditch on 2.9.1995 about 21 days prior to the accident in question by the jeep on 23.9.1995. The learned Tribunal has rejected the claim on the ground that since the FIR, for the accident in question dated 23.9.1995 by the jeep in the question, was lodged much belatedly after 2 months on 3.12.1995 and the police did not find any symptoms of the accident at the said site in question and the claimant was also admitted in Shamlaji Hospital about 25 km away but not in Doongarpur, therefore, the trial court felt that the accident dated 23.9.1995 was a make believe story and, therefore, the Tribunal rejected the claim petition.

(3.) THE leaned counsel for the appellant, therefore, submits that merely on the basis of statement of Moti Lal, PW -2, brother of claimant, who in his cross -examination admitted that the accident of bus in question also took place on 2.9.1995, the learned trial court could not altogether reject the real accident of the jeep which took place on 23.9.1995 and claimant suffered injuries of which sufficient medical evidence was before the Tribunal and the claimant having undergone the treatment from 24.9.1995 to 6.10.1995 in General Hospital, Samlaji, Distt. Sabar Kantha (Gujrat) and later in Himmat Nagar (Gujrat), which is admittedly near the village Doongarpur (Rajasthan) of the appellant.