Civil Revision No. 4991 of 2009 (O&M) (1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 2.9.2009 (i) Civil Revision No. 4991 of 2009. Gurjit Singh ......Petitioner Versus Jasbir Singh and others .......Respondents (ii) Civil Revision No. 4992 of 2009. Gurjit Singh ......Petitioner Versus Smt. Pinki and others .......Respondents (iii) Civil Revision No. 4993 of 2009. Gurjit Singh ......Petitioner Versus Smt. Mehmuda and others .......Respondents (iv) Civil Revision No. 4994 of 2009. Gurjit Singh ......Petitioner Versus Shamshad Ali and others .......Respondents (v) Civil Revision No. 4995 of 2009. Gurjit Singh ......Petitioner Versus Smt. Naiem and others .......Respondents (vi) Civil Revision No. 4996 of 2009. Gurjit Singh ......Petitioner Versus Rasid and others .......Respondents Civil Revision No. 4991 of 2009 (O&M) (2) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA. 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Shri GBS Dhillon, Advocate and Shri G.S. Bawa, Advocate, for the petitioner. HEMANT GUPTA, J. (Oral). This order shall dispose of Civil Revision Nos. 4991 to 4996 of 2009, as challenge in all these petition is to the order passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (for short `the Tribunal'), on 2.6.2009, whereby an application for setting aside ex-parte Award, was dismissed. It has been found by the learned Tribunal that the petitioner has appeared in the proceedings throughout. The petitioner has filed written statement as well. However, no evidence was led and the same was closed by an order of Court. In view of the said fact, the ex-parte proceedings initiated against the petitioner, were not set aside. Learned counsel for the petitioner has vehemently argued that the Insurance Company has been absolved from the liability for the reason that the route permits have not been produced, but route permits, in fact, were with the Insurance Company. The said argument is not available to the petitioner in the proceedings for setting aside ex-parte Award. The only question to be examined in an application for setting aside ex-parte Award is whether the petitioner was properly served and the ex-parte proceedings have been initiated against the petitioner properly. However, in the present case, it has Civil Revision No. 4991 of 2009 (O&M) (3) been found that the petitioner not only filed written statement, but was also present throughout the proceedings. In fact, the Award dated 21.8.2006 shows that the same was passed in the presence of the counsel for the petitioner as well. In view of the said fact, I do not find any patent illegality or irregularity in the order passed by the learned Tribunal so as to warrant interference by this Court in exercise of its revisional jurisdiction. Hence, all the revision petitions are dismissed. (HEMANT GUPTA) JUDGE 02-09-2009 ds