HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL

Appeal From Order No. 369 of 2022

09^th October, 2025

Rajpal Alias Rajpal Singh and Others ……..Appellants

Versus

National Insurance Company Limited and Others

……Respondents

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Presence:-

Mr. Mangha Ram Kashyap, learned counsel for the appellant.

Mr. Ashish Belwal, proxy counsel for Mr. Lalit Belwal, learned

counsel for respondent no.1/Insurance Company.

Mr. Bhupendra Prasad, learned counsel for respondent nos. 2 & 3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Hon’ble Mr. Alok Mahra, J.

This appeal, under Section 173 of the Motor

Vehicles Act, 1988, has been preferred by the appellants/claimants against the judgment and order dated 24.06.2022 passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/District Judge, Pauri Garhwal, whereby the claim petition filed by the appellants/claimants was

returned on the ground of lack of territorial jurisdiction.

2. Brief facts of the case, as per record, are that on 22.01.2020, a motor accident occurred in District Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, involving a motorcycle bearing registration no. UP12AR1710 allegedly driven rashly and negligentl