IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

Date of Reserve: 21/11/2025

Date of Pronouncement:-18.12.2025

Date of Uploading:-19.12.2025

Raju Singh ......Appellant

Vs.

Janak Raj & ors. ......Respondents

CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SUDEEPTI SHARMA

Present: Mr. Naresh Kaushik, Advocate (Through VC)

for the appellant.

Mr. Tarun Sharma, Advocate for

Mr. Saurabh Chawla, Advocate

for respondent No. 1.

Mr. R.S. Khushwaha, Advocate

for respondent No. 2.

Mr. Nitin Kataria, Advocate

for respondent No. 3.

Mr. Harsh Aggarwal, Advocate,

for respondent No. 4-Oriental Insurance Co.

Mr. Nigam K. Bhardwaj, Advocate

for respondent No. 5-General Insurance Co.

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SUDEEPTI SHARMA J .

1. The present appeal has been preferred against the award dated 13.09.2021 passed in the claim petition bearing CNR No. HRPK01-003348-2017 filed under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Panchkula (Haryana) (for short, 'the Tribunal’) for

enhancement of compensation granted to the appellant/claimant to the tune of Rs.3,96,000/-, on account of injuries suffered by him in a Motor Vehicular Accident, occurred on 11.07.2017.

2. As sole issue for determination in the present appeal is con