IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Pankaj Dhir and anr. ......Appellants vs.

Mohinder Singh and ors. ......Respondents Date of Reserve: 18.11.2025 Date of Pronouncement: 28.01.2026 Uploaded on:- 30.01.2026 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. Parminder Singh, Advocate for the appellants.

Mr. Anupam Singla, Advocate for respondent No. 2.

Ms. Ishani Goyal and Ms. Ipshita Goyal, Advocate for respondent-Insurance Company.

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SUDEEPTI SHARMA J .

1. The present appeal has been preferred by the appellants/claimants against the award dated 13.07.2018 filed under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Patiala (for short, 'the Tribunal’), vide which the claim petition filed by them was dismissed.

FACTS NOT IN DISPUTE

2. Brief facts of the case are that on 15.10.1982, deceased Ashwani Kumar Dhir was going in Bus No: PUC-3454 from Sirhind to Patiala being driven by respondent no. I Mohinder Singh. The said bus met with an accident and thereafter, fell into Bhakhra Canal at Adampur Nirwana bridge. FIR No. 20