IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. FAO No.4059/2008(O&M) Date of Decision: 20.5.2009. Kisturi Devi ..........Petitioner. Versus Rambir and others ..........Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH. Present: Mr. Lalit Goel,Advocate for the appellant-claimant Mr.Anil Rathee, Addl.A.G.Haryana for the official respondents. JASWANT SINGH,J(Oral). Appellant-claimant, who claims to be mother of deceased Narender Singh has filed the present appeal against the award dated 12.8.2008 passed by the learned Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal,Rewari (hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal) dismissing her claim petition seeking compensation for the death of said Narender Singh in a motor vehicular accident. In the claim petition it was case of the appellant that she being mother of the deceased was entitled to compensation on account of loss of dependency. However, the learned Tribunal, on the basis of evidence available on record came to conclusion that she was not proved to be mother of deceased and as such dismissed her claim petition. Hence the present appeal. It is contended by the learned counsel that the award passed by the learned Tribunal is based on mis-reading of evidence and against the facts. After hearing the learned counsel and perusing the paper book, I FAO No.4059/2008(O&M) 2 find no merit in this appeal. It was case of the appellant that she was married with Dharampal about 35 years ago and from that wedlock deceased Narender Singh was born. The said Dharampal is stated to have died 20 years ago. However, this claim of the appellant is totally demolished by the evidence of PW5 Mohinder Kumar Clerk from the office of Social Welfare Officer. It was stated by him that appellant Kisturi Devi is drawing widow pension since June 2007 as widow of one Dhara Singh. Similarly, PW7 Anil Kumar, Inspector Food and Supply proved the ration card of appellant wherein she was shown to be widow of Dhara Singh. No evidence worth the name could be pointed out by the learned counsel for the appellant which may lead this Court to disbelieve the testimony of these two independent official witnesses and to hold that Kisturi Devi is mother of deceased Narender Singh son of Dharampal. Finding no merit in this appeal, the same is hereby dismissed. 20.5.2009. (Jaswant Singh) joshi Judge