JUDGMENT :

Mansoor Ahmad Mir, J.

There is no representation on behalf of respondents No. 3 and 4. Hence, they are set ex-parte.

2. Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment and award, dated 1st September, 2009, made by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Una, Himachal Pradesh (for short "the Tribunal") in M.A.C. Petition No. 12 of 2006, titled as Smt. Tripta Devi versus General Manager H.R.T.C. Shimla and others, whereby compensation to the tune of ? 65,000/- with interest @ 8% per annum from the date of institution of the claim petition till its realization came to be awarded in favour of the claimant (for short ?the impugned award?).

3. This appeal is on the Board of this Court for the last more than seven years.

4. The appellant-claimant invoked the jurisdiction of the Tribunal by the medium of claim petition for grant of compensation to the tune of ? ten lacs, as per the break-ups given in the claim petition on the ground that she became the victim of the motor vehicular accident, which was caused by the driver, namely Jarm Singh, while driving HRTC bus, bearing registration No. HP-20 A-9005, rashly and negligently on 1st February, 2006, at about 4.15 P.M. near Village Katohar Kal