IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

226 FAO-1617-2003 Reserved on: 09.04.2026 Pronounced on:21.04.2026 ` Uploaded on:23.04.2026 Inderjit Kaur and others .…Appellants Versus Mohammed Shaban and others ……Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMARINDER SINGH GREWAL ****

Present: Mr. Surinder Garg, Advocate, for the appellants Mr. Vinod Gupta, Advocate, for the respondent No.3 (Insurance Company)

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AMARINDER SINGH GREWAL, J.

1. The present appeal has been filed by the appellants–claimants seeking enhancement of the compensation awarded by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Hoshiarpur (hereinafter “the Tribunal”), vide ₹

award dated 04.12.2002, whereby a sum of 3,60,000/- was granted on account of the death of Ram Pal Singh, husband of the appellant No.1, due to rash and negligent driving of respondent No.2.

2. Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the learned Tribunal has erred in law and on facts in assessing the income of the deceased at a meagre figure and in ignoring the material evidence showing that the deceased, namely Rampal Singh, who died in a motor vehicular accident dated 27.11.1998 while driving DCM Toyota vehicle No. HR- 26A-7675 near v