NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD vs MAHESHWARI DEVI & ORS

$~P-2 & 3 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 24.11.2025. Pronounced on: 24.12.2025. Uploaded on: 24.12.2025. MAC.APP. 566/2018 & CM APPL. 24909/2018 NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. .....Appellant versus MAHESHWARI DEVI & ORS. .....Respondents MAC.APP. 717/2025 MAHESHWARI DEVI .....Appellant versus NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND ORS. .....Respondents Appearances: Ms. Hetu Arora Sethi & Mr. Sanidhya Kumar, Advocates for National Insurance Co. Ltd. Mr. Anshuman Bal, Advocate for claimant. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN JUDGMENT 1. These two appeals - MAC. APP. 566/2018 filed by National Insurance Co. Ltd. [“Insurance Company”], and MAC. APP. 717/2025 filed by Smt. Maheshwari Devi [“claimant”] - are both directed against an award of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal [“Tribunal”] dated 16.04.2018 passed in MACT No. 575/2017, arising out of a road accident 2. The facts of the case, as stated in the award, are that on 27.05.2017, at about 09:00 PM, the deceased, Manish Kumar, was riding his motorcycle when, upon reaching the dividing road near Sector-13, DSIIDC, he struck against a truck bearing registration No. HR-55U-7927, which had been parked in the mid