# UTTARAKHAND TRANSPORT CORPORATION vs MUKESH KUMAR PAL & ANR.

Court: Delhi High Court
Date: 2025-11-26
Citation: MAC.APP.-564/2025 2025:DHC:10517
Petitioner: UTTARAKHAND TRANSPORT CORPORATION
Respondent: MUKESH KUMAR PAL & ANR.

[Official PDF on Delhi High Court website](https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/showFileJudgment/PRJ26112025MACA5642025_124610.pdf)

## Judgment text (excerpt)

$~5 (25.11.2025) * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Decided on: 26.11.2025 MAC.APP. 564/2025 & CM APPL. 55142/2025 UTTARAKHAND TRANSPORT CORPORATION .....Appellant Through: Mr. Daleep Dhyani. versus MUKESH KUMAR PAL & ANR. .....Respondents Through: None. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN PRATEEK JALAN, J. (ORAL) 1. This appeal has been listed today, as 25.11.2025 was declared a holiday vide Notification No. 35/G-4/Genl.-I/DHC dated 24.11.2025. 2. The appellant – Uttarakhand Transport Corporation, which is the owner of a bus bearing registration No. UK-07-PA-1374, assails an award of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal [“the Tribunal”] dated 28.05.2025 in MACT No. 71/2020. The Tribunal has awarded compensation of Rs.24,58,084/- alongwith interest at 7.5% per annum to respondent No. 1 – claimant, who was injured in an accident involving the said bus. 3. The facts of the case, as set out in the claim petition, are that the claimant was riding a motorcycle bearing registration No. DL-13-SN-0538, alongwith a pillion rider, on 10.07.2018. At about 06:00 p.m., at a location close to Chowki Patel Nager, District Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, the motorcycle was hit by the said bu

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