IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision:26.02.2026 Deepa Rani and other .…Appellants Versus Gurvinder Singh and another ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIDHI GUPTA Present: - Mr. Archit Garg, Advocate for Mr. Shantanu Bansal, Advocate for the appellants.

NIDHI GUPTA, J.

1. Present appeal has been filed by the appellant-claimants against the dismissal of their claim petition bearing MACP Case No. 205 dated 19.04.2017filed under Sections 166 and 140 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’), by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Kurukshetra (for short ‘the learned Tribunal’) vide impugned Award dated 19.11.2024.The 05 claimants are the: i) 43- year-old widow; ii) 18-year-old daughter; iii) 16-year-old son; and iv) parents of deceased-Anil Kumar who was 41 years old at the time of accident. The present appeal has been filed by claimants No. 1 to 3 i.e. widow and minor children; whereas parents of the deceased are impleaded as proforma respondents No. 2 and 3 herein.

2. It was the pleaded case of the claimants that deceased had died due to the injuries suffered by him in a motor vehicular accident that took pl