IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (i) FAO-2486-2001 Satinder Kaur ...Appellant Versus M/s Jaina & Co. and others ...Respondents (ii) FAO-2485-2001 Harinder Singh ...Appellants Versus M/s Jaina & Co. and others ...Respondents Reserved on: 11.03.2026 Pronounced on: 16.03.2026 Pronounced fully/operative part: Fully CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Argued by: Mr. Divyanshu Bansal, Advocate for Mr. J.S. Thind, Advocate for the appellant.

Mr. Shubham Gupta, Advocate for Mr. D.P. Gupta, Advocate for respondent No.3.

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DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

These two appeals have been filed against the common award dated 22.01.2001 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Patiala, whereby separate claim petitions arising out of the same motor vehicular accident were disposed of.

2. The appellants before this Court are husband and wife, both of whom sustained injuries in a motor vehicular accident that occurred on 24.02.1997. As per their case, they along with Bachittar Singh were travelling in a Maruti car bearing registration No. PB-10-D-843 from Rajpura towards Patiala. The car was allegedly being driven by claimant Harinder Singh at a normal speed on the correct left side of th