JUDGMENT :

SANDEEP SHARMA, J.

1. By way of present appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act ( for short ‘Act’), prayer has been made on behalf of the appellant (hereinafter ‘claimant’) to enhance the amount awarded by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (II), Kullu, District Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, in Claim petition No.31 of 2011, whereby learned Tribunal below while allowing the claim petition having been filed by the claimant under Section 166 of the Act, awarded sum of Rs.1,11000/- alongwith interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the date of filing the petition till the date of deposit of amount in favour of the claimant.

2. Precisely, the facts as emerge from the record are that the claimant Smt. Sumitra Devi, who happened to be mother of deceased Sandeep Kumar, preferred petition under Section 166 of the Act, claiming therein compensation to the tune of Rs.15,00,000/- on account of death of her son namely, Sandeep Kumar. On 20.7.2011, deceased Sandeep Kumar, aged 28 years while coming from Bhuntar to Kullu side riding his own motorcycle bearing registration N