Digitally signed by MULEY MULEY SHUBHAM SHUBHAM PRAVINRAO 1 FA-154-2022.doc PRAVINRAO Date:

2025.05.10

21:20:14 +0530 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION FIRST APPEAL NO. 154 OF 2022 WITH INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 957 OF 2022 IN FIRST APPEAL NO. 154 OF 2022 Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd.

through its Manager ….Appellant (Ori. Opponent No.2)

Vs.

Ms. Charu Ashok Khandal (deleted)

1. Ashok Radheshyam Sharma Khandal

2. Mrs Pawan Ashok Khandal

3. Rutu Ashok Khandal

4. Mr Manoj Kumar N Gautam ….Respondents -----------------

Mr. Rajesh Kanojia a/w Deepika Prabhala for the Appellant/Applicant.

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CORAM : G. S. KULKARNI &

ADVAIT M. SETHNA, JJ.

RESERVED ON : 27 FEBRUARY 2025 PRONOUNCED ON : 09 MAY 2025 JUDGMENT (PER ADVAIT M. SETHNA, J.):

1. As observed by us in our earlier order dated 27 February 2025 the first appeal Admitted on 6 February 2025, is taken up for final hearing and disposal.

2. The case before us is rather heart-wrenching and a tragic saga of a young aspiring professional girl working as a character animator with a reputed media production house aged 28 years. At prime of her youth, she met with a fatal accident on 25 March 2012 in