ORIENTAL INSURANCE CO.LTD Vs. BABY DEVI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) CHALLENGE in these writ applications is to the Awards of the Permanent Lok Adalats on the dispute between the parties relating to the claim put forth by the individual applicants/respondents, for payment of compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act, in respect of the piemature death of persons, who died in road accidents involving motor vehicles and on whose earnings the applicants were dependant.

(2.) THE petitioners in these writ applications are the insurers, who have challenged the Awards of the Permanent Lok Adalat on inter alia the following grounds:

(3.) LEARNED Counsel for the petitioners in each of these cases, have commonly relied upon the following judgments in support of their contentions: