JUDGMENT :

Instant appeal filed under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (in short “the Act”), lays challenge to award dated 11.10.2017, passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-(II), Solan, District Solan, camp at Nalagarh, (in short “the Tribunal”) in MAC Petition No.5-S/2 of 2016, titled Dharmesh and Ors. v. Bhupinder Singh and Anr., whereby the Tribunal below while allowing claim petition having been filed by the respondents-claimants (hereinafter referred to as “the claimants”) under Section 166 of the Act, saddled the appellant-Insurance Company with liability to pay compensation to the tune of Rs. 15,85,000/- to the claimants alongwith interest @8% p.a. from the date of filing of the petition till deposit of the award amount on account of death of late Sh. Ujjagar Singh.

2. Briefly stated facts, as emerge from the record, are that claimants No. 1 to 3, who happen to be children and widow of deceased Ujjagar Singh, preferred claim petition under Section 166 of the Act before the MACT below, seeking therein compensation to the tune of Rs. 21,00,000/- on acco