IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on : 05.12.2025 Date of Pronouncement : 29.01.2026 Date of Uploading : 31.01.2026 Oriental Insurance Company Limited ......Appellant Vs.

Seema and others ......Respondents Whether only the operative part of the judgment is pronounced? NO Whether full judgment is pronounced? YES CORAM: HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE SUDEEPTI SHARMA Present : Mr. Harsh Aggarwal, Advocate, for the appellant-Insurance Company.

None for the respondents.

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SUDEEPTI SHARMA J .

1. The present appeal has been preferred against the award dated 06.11.2024 passed in the claim petition filed under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Sonipat (for short, ‘the Tribunal’), whereby the appellant-Insurance company was held liable to pay the compensation to the claimants/respondents to the tune of Rs.20,32,000/- along with interest @ 7.5% per annum on account of death of Satyadev.

BRIEF FACTS OF THE CASE

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 26.11.2022, Satyadev (since deceased) was going on his bicycle from his village Fazilpur, District Sonipat, to attend his duty at Den Block Private Limited Company, Sonipat.