IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved On: 29.10.2025 Pronounced On: 06.11.2025 Premo Devi And Others … Appellants Versus Mohinder Singh (Since Deceased) Through His LRS … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE VIRINDER AGGARWAL Present: Mr. Ashit Malik, Senior Advocate with Mr. Maneet Kaushik, Advocate for appellants.

Mr. Ashish Gupta, Advocate for respondent No.2.

Mr. Sanjiv Pabbi, Advocate for Respondent No.3.

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VIRINDER AGGARWAL, J.

1. The present appeal has been preferred by the claimants-appellants assailing the award dated 20.12.2001 passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Karnal, whereby the claim petition filed by the appellants for grant of compensation on account of death of Sumer Chand suffered in a motor vehicle accident came to be dismissed.

BACKGROUND FACTS

2. The brief facts of the case are that the accident took place on the intervening night of 13/14.06.1999 near Sachdeva Rice Mill within the limits of village Shamgarh, District Panipat, when Sumer Chand was returning home on his bicycle from village Jainpur after visiting his grandmother. A truck bearing registration No. HRP-9965 which was driven by respondent No.1 Mohinder Sin