the register and 480 duty slips which have been collectively exhibited as exbt. PW1/32. The photocopy of the register has been exhibited as exbt. PW-1/31. In the cross examination, the plaintiff, PW-1 has admitted that receipt no.200 dated 19.02.95 and receipt no.273 dated 03.03.91 are unsigned. It has come in the evidence of the plaintiff that he does not know who had signed that duty slips and the name of the driver was Jai Kishan Sharma, who is at present in his service. Sh. Jai Kishan Sharma, PW2 has stated in his evidence that the entries regarding the taxis provided by the plaintiff are made in the taxi hiring register, exbt. PW-1/31. He has stated that sometime the users of the taxis were under the influence of alcohol and they refused to sign the duty slips and he had told this to the counter clerk at Bihar Bhawan and he was told that it would make no difference if the duty slips are not signed. He has stated that defendant no.2 told him not to enter into any verbal altercation with the user of the taxi as they were VIPs. The duty slips which are unsigned and some the duty slips on which signatures are not legible, payment has not been made by the defendant. As regards, the remaining duty slips which are duly signed, the same is admitted in the written statement and a decree for Rs.1,04,460.80 p. has already been passed on 27.7.96.
