Advocates:
['D S PATNI', '', 'SHRADDHA PANDIT', 'PRABHAT PANDE', 'PANKAJ PUROHIT']

IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND

AT NAINITAL

SRI JUSTICE S.K. MISHRA, A.C.J.

Date of Hearing : 28.10.2021/23/03/2022

Delivered on : 23.03.2022

A.O. No. 157 OF 2009

Between:

National Insurance Company Limited.

….Appellant

and

Smt. Suneeta Devi and others. …Respondents

Counsel for the appellant.

:

Mr. Prabhat Pandey, learned counsel.

Counsel for the respondents

:

Mr. Pankaj Purohit, learned counsel.

Upon hearing the learned Counsel, the Court made

the following

JUDGMENT :

In

this

case,

the

respondent

National

Insurance Company Limited has assailed the judgment

dated 26.02.2019 passed by the learned Motor Accident

Claims Tribunal, Chamoli in MACP No.15 of 2008 Smt.

Suneeta Devi and others vs. National Insurance

Company Limited, whereby the learned Tribunal directed

the present appellant, i.e., respondent No. 1 before the

Tribunal to pay a sum of Rs. 8,41,820/-, along with

interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum from the

date of institution of the petition.

2

2.

Briefly stated, the case of the claimants is that

late Pradeep Kumar alias Pradeep Chandra Dhondiyal

was th