IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Bajrang Singh and Another . . . . Appellants Vs.

Bijender and Another . . . . Respondents ****

Reserved on: 02.04.2026 Pronounced on: 06.04.2026 Pronounced fully/opera3ve part: Fully ****

CORAM: HON’BLE MR JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Argued by:- Mr. Dharmender Kumar Sihag, Advocate for the appellants.

Ms. Vandana Malhotra, Advocate (through Video Conferencing) for respondent No.2- Insurance Company.

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DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

The present appeal has been preferred by the claimants against the Award dated 19.05.2023 passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tri- bunal, Gurugram, whereby the claim pe00on filed under Sec0on 163-A of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 has been partly allowed and compensa0on to the ex- tent of ₹1,00,000/- has been awarded on account of personal accident cover, while declining the claim under the statutory provisions of the Act.

2. The case of the claimants, in brief, is that their son Amit died in a motor vehicular accident, which took place on 10.06.2020, while he was riding motorcycle bearing registra0on No. HR-14Q-2322, which he had borrowed from respondent No.1. The accident allegedly occurred due to collision with an un