JUDGMENT

Sandeep Sharma, J. - By way of present appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988( for short 'Act'), challenge has been laid to award dated 20.11.2015, passed by learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Una, District Una, Himachal Pradesh, (hereinafter referred to as 'Tribunal',) in MACP No. 58/2014, titled as Raj Rani and others Vs Satnam Singh and another, whereby learned Tribunal below while allowing the claim petition, having been filed by respondents-claimants No.1 to 5 (hereinafter 'claimants'), saddled appellant-Insurance Company with liability to pay compensation to the tune of Rs. 25,40,600/- along with interest @ 7.5% per annum from the date of filing of the petition i.e. 30.4.2014 till the payment is made.

2. Precisely the facts of the case, as emerge from the record are that the claim petition under Section 166 of Motor Vehicles Act, came to be filed at the instance of the claimants on account of death of Santosh Dass, being widow, daughters and sons of the deceased, who died in a motor vehicle accident, which took place on 5.4.2014 involv