IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT GWALIOR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE HIRDESH st ON THE 21 OF JANUARY, 2026 MISC. APPEAL No. 536 of 2015 MANNULAL DHANGI @ BHAJANLAL DANGI Versus SMT. PISTA DEVI AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Ram Kishor Sharma - Advocate for the appellant.

Shri Shrinivas Gajendragadkar- Advocate for respondent No.2.

ORDER This miscellaneous appeal has been preferred by the appellant/claimant seeking setting aside of the impugned Award dated 09.09.2014 passed by the First Additional Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Datia (hereinafter referred to as "Claims Tribunal") in Claim Case No. 28/2013, whereby the Claims Tribunal rejected the claim petition filed under Section 163A of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, on the ground that it was not legally maintainable.

2. Brief facts of the case are that on 26.11.2012, at about 6:00 PM, the appellant was traveling as a pillion rider on a motorcycle with his relative from Datia to Samai. Near Village Jhadiya, another motorcycle bearing registration MP-32-MC/0794, coming from the opposite direction, was being driven in a rash and negligent manner and collided with the motorcycle on which the appellant was traveling. As a result of the