1. Impugned Award of 8th April, 2015 grants compensation of Rs.67,49,856/- with interest @ 8% per annum to respondents-Claimants on account of death of IBP Company’s Divisional Manager-Ajay Kumar Sharma, aged 46 years, in a vehicular accident on 3rd January, 2006.

2. The factual background of this case, as noticed in the impugned Award, is as under:-

“This is a petition u/s 166 and 140 of the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as M.V. Act) for grant of compensation. This was one of the old MACT cases pending before this Tribunal. In brief the relevant facts of the case as mentioned in the petition are that one Sh. Ajay Kumar Sharma expired in road traffic accident on 03-01-2006 at about 1.45 p.m. while driving Maruti Wagon R bearing registration no. DL 8CH 4853. It is mentioned in the petition that on the said date and time the deceased was proceeding at GTK Road situated within the area of Village Lalpur, Kosarha on way from Allahabad to Varanasi and at that time the car was proceeding on proper side of the highway at moderate speed and there was a statio