Guwahati Court April 1985 Judgments

Samati Deb Barma and ors. Vs. State of Tripura and ors.

Court: Guwahati

T.N. Singh, J. 1. By this common judgment, we propose to dispose of the three appeals for more than one reason. Firstly, because though claims are multiple, the accident is singular and the claims arise out of the same and a singular accident. Secondly, a common point of law is involved in all these appeals bearing on the interpretation of Section 92A of the MotorVehicles Act, for short ' the Act ', inserted by the Amendment Act No. 47 of 1982. 2. The appellant in Appeal No. 27 of 1984 was permanently disabled as a result of the accident while in the other two appeals, the legal representatives of the deceased have come to this court. In one case, the deceased was Sadhan Debnath and in the other case Bishu Kumar Deb Barma, In both cases, the widows and other legal representatives of the deceased have appealed against the order rendered by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal on petitions under Section 92A which were rejected by a common order passed on April 30, 1984, in T. S. (Motor...