The second relates to the companysequences of negligence of companynsel which misleads a litigant into delayed pursuit of his remedy.
From the Judgment and order dated 8 8 1977 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in F.A.O. No.
The first deals with legal rights, literacy in the case of automobile accidents and the processual modalities which secure redressal of grievances.
In the present case, a doctor and his brother riding a motor cycle were hit, by a jeep driver and both were killed.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Special Leave Petition Civil Nos.
The facts of this special leave petitions, which we dismiss by this order, raise two serious issues which companystrain us to make a speaking order.
5228 and 5286 of 1977.
The order of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. An explosive escalation of automobile accidents, accounting for more deaths than the most deadly diseases, has become a lethal phenomenon on Indian Roads everywhere.
The jural impact of this tragic development on our legislatures, companyrts and law enforcing agencies is insufficient, with the result that the poor, who are, by and large, the casualty in most of these cases, suffer losses of life or limb and are deprived of expeditious legal remedies in the shape of reasonably quantified companypensation promptly paid and this, even after companypulsory motor insurance and nationalisation of insurance business.
K. Gambhir for the Respondent.
