IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

Reserved on: 28.10.2025

Date of decision : 23.12.2025

Uploaded on: 24.12.2025

YOG RAJ AND ANR. ......Appellants

Vs.

CHUHAR SINGH @ MAKHAN & ORS. ......Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE SUDEEPTI SHARMA

Present: Mr. Amit Kaith, Advocate

Mr. Alankar Narula, Advocate

for the appellants.

Mr. K.S. Dhanora, Advocate

Ms. Kritika Mandhan, Advocate

for respondents No.1 and 2.

Mr. Vikas Kumar Gupta, Advocate

for respondent No.3.

Mr. Vinod Gupta, Advocate

for respondent No.4.

SUDEEPTI SHARMA J.

1. The present appeal has been preferred for setting aside the award dated 16.07.2008 passed in the claim petition filed under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Hoshiarpur (for short, ‘the Tribunal’), whereby, claim petition filed

by the appellants/claimants, was dismissed.

FACTS NOT IN DISPUTE

2. The brief facts of the case are that on on 22.10.204, at about 7.00 PM, Balwinder Kumar along with his mother Saroj Rani was going

towards their fields and when they reached in front of a bank in village Samudra, a Mahindra Jeep bearing No.PB-32-D-3805 (hereinafter referred as Offending vehicle), which was owned by re