FA/445/2025

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NEUTRAL CITATION C/FA/445/2025 JUDGMENT DATED: 12/06/2026 2026:GUJHC:36204 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/FIRST APPEAL NO. 445 of 2025 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE MOOL CHAND TYAGI ========================================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No ========================================================== HDFC ERGO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Versus MUKTAR YUNUSBHAI VOHRA & ORS. ========================================================== Appearance: MASUMI V NANAVATY(9321) for the Appellant(s) No. 1 MR VIBHUTI NANAVATI(513) for the Appellant(s) No. 1 MS KIRTI S PATHAK(9966) for the Defendant(s) No. 2 NISHIT A BHALODI(9597) for the Defendant(s) No. 5,6,7 NOTICE SERVED for the Defendant(s) No. 1 NOTICE UNSERVED for the Defendant(s) No. 3,4 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE MOOL CHAND TYAGI Date : 12/06/2026 JUDGMENT 1. The captioned appeal is preferred against the impugned judgment and award dated 07.08.2024 passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Main) and Principal District Judge, Anand in M.A.C.P. No. 24 of 2021, whereby the learned Tribunal has partly allowed the claim petition and awarded a sum of Rs.21,65,376/- (Rupees Twenty One Lakh Sixty Five Thousand Three Hundred Seventy Six) along with interest at the rate of 8% per annum, from the date of filing of the claim petition till realization. Uploaded by () on Downloaded on : Tue Jun 30 23:47:10 IST 2026 NEUTRAL CITATION C/FA/445/2025 JUDGMENT DATED: 12/06/2026 2026:GUJHC:36204 2. The succinct facts, which lead to the filing of the captioned appeal are summarized as under :- i. On 17.02.2021, deceased Arjunbhai Umedbhai Chauhan was driving an Eicher vehicle bearing Registration No. GJ-17-X-4