IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD FRIDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.5290 of 2002 BETWEEN The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. ... PETITIONER AND Gasikanti Laxmaiah. ...RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner : SMT. I. MAAMU VANI Counsel for the Respondent: --NONE APPEARED-- The Court made the following: ORDER: This revision petition, at the instance of the insurance company – petitioner, is directed against the award passed by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Karimnagar in O.P.No.539 of 1999 dated 29.11.2001 awarding compensation of Rs.5,000/- with proportionate costs and interest jointly and severally against all the three respondents in the OP. 2. The petitioner herein was figuring as third respondent in the OP and this revision is preferred questioning the liability on the ground that the claimant was an unauthorized passenger travelling in the offending vehicle and as such, the insurance company is not liable. 3. A batch of claim petitions arising out of the same accident was subject matter of CMA.No.2830 of 2001 and batch wherein the same question was considered and decided by this Court under judgment dated 19.03.2009 and all the appeals were allowed in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in NEW INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED v. ASHA RANI AND OTHERS[1]. This civil revision petition also shall stand allowed in terms of the judgment in the batch of appeals, referred to above. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J July 1, 2011 DSK [1] 2003 (1) ACJ 1 : (2003) 2 SCC 223