ORDER :

1. The present appeal has been preferred under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short, ‘the Act of 1988’) against the judgment/award dated 18.08.2018 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal First, Jodhpur in Motor Accident Claim Case No.172/2014 (NCV No.3183/14) whereby the claim petition as preferred by the claimants under Section 166 of the Act of 1988 has been partly allowed and an award for an amount of Rs.10,05,748/- with interest @ 9% per annum from the date of filing of claim petition has been passed in favour of the claimants.

It is relevant to note that Smt. Paru Devi, mother of the deceased, was though impleaded as proforma non-claimant, the learned Tribunal awarded a sum of Rs.55,748/- in her favour. In the present appeal too, she has been impleaded as proforma respondent no.7.

2. Brief facts of the case are that a claim petition was preferred by the claimants with the submission that on 19.01.2014, Satya Narayan was travelling as a pillion rider with his brother (non-claimant No.4) on motorcycle bearing registration No.RJ19-KS-0109 from Vil