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Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS No.

and Registrar’s order with Signatures AO No.430 of 2022 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J.

Mr. Hari Mohan Bhatia, learned counsel for the appellant.

2. Ms. Bhavya Sharma, learned counsel holding brief of Mr. D.C.S. Rawat, learned counsel for respondent no.2.

3. This Appeal from Order has been filed by the claimants seeking enhancement of the compensation awarded by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/Addl. District Judge, Kotdwar, Pauri, vide award dated

01.10.2022 in M.A.C.T. No. 18 of 2020.

4. Facts of the case, in brief, are that on 01.08.2020, the husband of appellant No. 1, Pankaj Kumar, was travelling from Haridwar to his home at Shivrajpur, Kotdwar, on a Honda Activa scooter (No. UK 08 AN 7971). At about 7:40 p.m., between Chidiyapur and Samipur on the East Ganga Canal Road, approximately 10 km from Mandawali Police Station, an Eicher truck (No. HR 45C-9669), being driven rashly and negligently towards Haridwar, collided head-on with the deceased’s scooter. The truck driver abandoned the vehicle and fled from the spot. Pankaj Kumar, aged 28 years, died on the scene. He was employed as a Jun