JUDGMENT :

Instant appeal filed under S. 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act (hereinafter, ‘Act’) lays challenge to award dated 3.10.2015 passed by learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (II), Mandi, District Mandi, H.P. in MAC Petition No. 642/2013, whereby learned Tribunal below, while allowing claim petition having been filed by respondents Nos. 1 to 3/claimants, (hereinafter, ‘claimants’) saddled the appellant-insurance company with the liability to pay compensation to the tune of Rs.41,29,259/- alongwith interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum, to the claimants, from the date of filing of petition, till realization.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the record, are that the claimants filed a claim petition under S.166 of the Act, averring therein that on 26.12.2010, deceased Seema Devi, alongwith claimants was going from Mandi to Delhi in Bus bearing registration No. HR-69-A-6158, being driven by respondent No. 5 herein, in a rash and negligent manner, due to which it collided with truck bearing registration No. HP-19-A-2268. Seema Devi, expired in the accident.