JAGDISH PARSHAD AND ANR vs RAJU BANSAL AND ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 290 FAO-3217-2004 (O&M) Date of decision:15.07.2026 JAGDISH PARSHAD (DECEASED) THROUGH L.RS. & ANR. ...APPELLANTS VERSUS RAJU BANSAL AND ANOTHER ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARMOD GOYAL Present: Mr. Mohd. Yousaf, Advocate and Ms. Arzoo Modi, Advocate for appellants. Mr. Vinod Gupta, Advocate for respondent-Insurance Company *** PARMOD GOYAL, J. (ORAL) Present appeal has been preferred by appellants-claimants challenging award dated 06.12.2003 passed by Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Sangrur (hereinafter referred to as ‘Tribunal’), whereby their claim petition was dismissed. Appellant-claimants are husband and son of Smt. Bimla Devi (hereinafter referred to as ‘deceased’), who had preferred claim petition on account of untimely death of deceased in motor vehicular accident dated 07.07.1998. 2. Appellants-claimants had claimed that on 07.07.1998 deceased was traveling along with her son, Raju Bansal, in car bearing registration number PB-64/0100 from Sunam to Delhi at normal speed on the correct side of the road and said car was hit by canter bearing registration number HR-46/9303 (hereinafter referred to as ‘canter’