JUDGMENT :

Instant appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, (in short “ the Act”) lays challenge to award dated 23.2.2017, passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-III, Solan, camp at Arki, District Solan, H.P., in MACP No. 5AK/2 of 2015 (Regd No. 12/15), whereby learned Tribunal below while allowing the petition having been filed by the appellants-petitioners-claimants (in short “the claimants”) saddled the respondent-HRTC with liability to pay compensation to the tune of Rs. 6,73,000/- alongwith interest @ 9% per annum, from the date of filing of the petition till its deposit.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case as emerge from the record are that the claimants, filed a petition under Section 166 of the Act, in the court of learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-III, Solan, Camp at Arki, District Solan, H.P., claiming therein compensation to the tune of Rs. 50.00 lac, on account of death of Sh. Hem Raj, son of claimants No. 1 and 2 and brother of claimants No. 3 and 4, in an accident.

3. Allegedly, on 10.10.2014, at about 9:00AM, while deceased Hem Raj was