BALESH DEVI & ORS. vs ROYAL SUNDARAM ALLIANCE CO. LTD. & ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Decided on: 12.11.2025 MAC.APP. 606/2025 BALESH DEVI & ORS. .....Appellants Through: Mr. Anshuman Bal, Advocate. versus ROYAL SUNDARAM ALLIANCE CO. LTD. & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Suman Bagga & Ms. Mouli Sharma, Advocates for R-1. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN PRATEEK JALAN, J. (ORAL) 1. By way of this appeal, the appellants seek enhancement of the compensation awarded by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal [“the Tribunal”] in MACT No. 66/2019, titled Balesh Devi & Ors. vs. Mujahid @ Mujji & Ors., vide the impugned award dated 05.12.2024, under which the appellants were granted Rs. 40,25,069/- alongwith interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum. 2. The claim before the Tribunal arose from the death of Mr. Mukesh Kumar Sharma in a road accident on 02.11.2018. The claim was filed by eight persons, namely his wife, five daughters, one son, and his father. 3. Mr. Anshuman Bal, learned counsel for the appellants, urges a single ground of challenge – that the Tribunal erroneously excluded three 4. I have heard Mr. Anshuman Bal and Ms. Suman Bagga, learned counsel for Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd. [“the Insurance Comp