KALAWATI Vs. PARAS RAM

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE present appeal has been filed by the appellant on the ground returning of the claim petition vide order dated 18.11.2010, passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Sonepat, (for short, 'the Tribunal').

(2.) LEARNED counsel for the appellant states that the accident in question occurred in the jurisdiction of District Kurukshetra, at that point of time the claimant had been residing at Delhi, however, after the death of her husband and son, she shifted to her native village under the jurisdiction of District Sonepat. The claim petition preferred by the appellant at Sonepat was dismissed on the ground of lack of jurisdiction holding that the accident took place in the territorial jurisdiction of the district Kurukshetra as the Court at Sonepat is not competent to pass the award though, the complete evidence has been recorded in this case.

(3.) SECTION 166(2) of the Motor Vehicles Act reads as under: -