JUDGMENT :

Sandeep Sharma, J.

1. By way of instant appeal filed under S. 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act (hereinafter, 'Act'), challenge has been laid to Award dated 19.1.2012 passed by learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-II, Mandi, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh in MACT No. 38 of 2007, whereby learned Tribunal below, while allowing the claim petition, having been filed by the appellants-claimants (hereinafter, 'claimants'), held respondents Nos. 2 and 3 jointly liable to pay a sum of Rs. 2,36,000/- alongwith interest at the rate of 7.5 per annum from the date of filing of the petition, till the date of deposit.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case as emerge from the record are that a claim petition under S. 166 of the Act, came to be instituted at the behest of the claimants, claiming therein compensation to the tune of Rs. 15.00 Lakh, on account of death of Chaman Lal in a motor-vehicle accident involving vehicle bearing registration No. HP-58-1710 on 10.10.2006. As per claimants, on 10.10.2006, deceased was coming from Village Bagla to Mandi on his motorcycle bearing registra