# MAMTA & ORS vs UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED & ANR

Court: Delhi High Court
Date: 2025-12-04
Citation: MAC.APP.-282/2018 2025:DHC:10973
Petitioner: MAMTA & ORS
Respondent: UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED & ANR

[Official PDF on Delhi High Court website](https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/showFileJudgment/PRJ04122025MACA2822018_190102.pdf)

## Judgment text (excerpt)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Decided on: 04.12.2025 MAC.APP. 282/2018 MAMTA & ORS .....Appellants Through: Mr. Anshuman Bal, Advocate. versus UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED & ANR .....Respondents Through: Ms. Suman Bagga and Ms. Mouli Sharma, Advocates for R-1. Mr. Sourabh Luthra, Advocate for R-2. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN PRATEEK JALAN, J. (ORAL) 1. The appellants, who were the claimants before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal [“the Tribunal”], are in appeal against an award dated 20.11.2017 in MACT No. 14818/2015, by which the Tribunal dismissed their claim for compensation under Section 163A of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 [“the Act”], as it then was. The claim arose out of a fatal accident, in which one Mr. Naresh Kumar died. The claimants are his wife, two sons and his mother. 2. The facts of the accident, as they appear from the impugned award, are that the deceased was driving in a Rural Transport Vehicle [“RTV”] [bearing registration No. DL1VA0252]. On 29.09.2012, at about 5:45 PM, an accident took place in Gali No. 7, Ashok Nagar, Delhi, between the RTV and a motorcycle [bearing registration No. DL4SBT7946] [“the insured vehicle”]. The 

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